Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

Live smaller, closer, drive less was the takeaway. Pretty foundational systems thinking for anyone doing urban sustainability work. Argues that we should make beautifying our cities so they are livable and reasonable for people to stay in as they have kids a priority, also suggests practical economics as the best driver for sustainability - carbon tax would be great. For my work takeaways are that cars very much are the problem, yes for direct emissions but mostly for the way of life they enable (everything a drive away, huge parking lots? Etc). Nothing surprising, the most surprising ideas were just how swiftly some cities around the world develop their built environments around ideas. Good data background on how to evaluate what a sustainable way of life looks like.