Creating Sustainable Cities

What makes a city sustainable? We take a look at the world's most sustainable cities to find out how they were created.
After the overwhelming response we got from of our first sustainable cities video, it was suggested that we should make a follow up video to dive deeper into the key aspects that are needed to create a sustainable city, so that is exactly what we have done!

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[GoingGreenOfficial]

Which is your favourite sustainable city?

[personaldisaster]

I keep thinking about the abandoned cities we have around the world, how we could make them green and then relocated those families who are homeless. One day 🙏🏽

[ikramaitlahbib]

I'm from Morocco and have been living in the Basque Country, Spain (specifically Bilbao), for the past three years. I believe it can be considered a sustainable city as well. This is due to its extensive network of bike paths, an efficient and eco-friendly public transportation system that is also quite affordable, and the active participation of its citizens in recycling, reaching high levels of waste reduction. Despite the Basque Country's well-known reputation for its stunning natural landscapes, the city also offers numerous beautiful green spaces within its urban environment.
I hope Morocco follows the same path as the Basque Country in becoming a country with sustainable cities.

[tinman]

Can someone critique this for me?

Elements of an ideal city region

A. Outer Form (built environment)

• Decline of heavy industries, automobile, sprawl, single crop farming
• Optimal densities
• Garden farming
• Arts and crafts economy
• Function of central city largely cultural (24 hour activities)
• Neighborhoods at pedestrian scale (schools, markets, work decentralized)
• Mass transit to link central city with outlying towns and villages
• Urban buildup concentrated along transit lines
• Open, unobstructed nature areas brought in close relationship to central city
• Building design and materials compatible with living structure

[rojojezrielc]

Amazing cities! They’re rich not only in the economy but as in the sustainability goals. Great minds and people. 🥰

[CaptainSteveVPT]

The Townships made by Megaworld in the Philippines 🇵🇭 springs to mind... if that added renewable into their ethos then that would be epic.

[BloodHawk]

I'll be blunt, I do not like environmental engineering as I like Water or Structural, but their impact on the future is probably the biggest out if all fields as they do research in all fields to find a solution. I'm doing a paper on sustainable development and I have learned so much, there is so much people do not know about. Every report is an eye-opener, makes me want to contact Cape Town authorities and ask how I can help bring change. But politics is the number one reason the transitions are so slow. Finance can be restructured, employment replaced by new sustainable jobs, it just needs to start. Very excited for the future.😁

[The_Environmental_Consultant]

Water spaces (ponds, canals etc) are great as well!

[surajyadav-ttlp]

Bihar, jharkhand state is going to look like this after some years, i promise

[SpaceBagel]

Hoping to work in the sustainable energy sector one day!

[jodibraun]

Medellín has made huge strides in cooling their city with their "green corridors".

[aaditpatel]

Can you please give a study on Masdar city as it aims for zero carbon emissions and zero waste generation city

[harryrussell]

The Grow-Live Tower, which is a cylindrical structure with a central support column, periphery support columns, and suspension cables connecting the two to support the floor levels. This tower provides the food for the people that live in the lower 20 levels by growing it in the upper 60 levels. These Tower/generators, if embraced by the world, would end world hunger, homelessness, cut global disease by 85% due to improved living conditions, increase water conservation by 10, 000%, end the poisoning of the world's water by petroleum and mono culture's 'one crop' farming, end the world money system by providing all the essentials for life for free.

Restoring Arctic Ice. The water temperature at the bottom of the sea is colder than at the top, so simply pump up the cold water at the edge of the ice flow to slow the warming/melting process. This can be done by hanging 30' diameter tubes, by floatation vertically from the surface to close to the bottom. A pump at the top would need to just pump out 4' of water before the capillary effect would automatically begin bringing up the colder water to the surface. If 10, 000 of these were placed close to the ice edge it would effectively lower the temperature of the water that is contacting the ice flow, slowing the melt during summer, increasing the ice build up in winter, and lowering the mean temperature of the region. Possible slowing the Greenland ice as well.

The important thing to remember is that this global monetary system is an invention. As the numbers are invented to cause the world economy to crash. New numbers can also be invented to establish a prosperous one. A "World Zero" day can be instituted whereby all world debts are erased, all lenders are completely repaid by invented "new money", which is just as valid as the 'old money' now in their pockets. All rented homes are given to the dwellers and the new money payments are made to the landlords equal to ten years of payments, then nothing more. All auto payments end, the owners receive the titles, and the dealers are paid with new money. New money pays the people $8, 000 every month in their accounts, and all of their health care needs with that industry receiving total payment for their services with new money, all student loan debts vanish. When the global monetarists attempt to 'crash' the new money system, the recorded history of the financial dealings is simply rewound back to before the crashing occurred, then restarted again. Crashes are only crashes on paper, not reality. This system can give freedom or slavery. It gives slavery because it is Satan's system and plays into prophecy.

The Power Multiplier Device: Open sourced, gravity driven, continuous motion, free energy generator: Power Multiplier Device, last resize (I hope)-overunity.com

Functions as follows:

Small motor draws energy from the battery to turn a large bicycle-type wheel clockwise, turning the drive sprocket clockwise also because both share the same axle. This has the drive sprocket climb the chain, taking the whole assembly with its 2, 000 pounds of weights. Three things now happen:

1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain with its 400 pound pull, taking 1 hour to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery. Energy Expended going up. EE/up= 1 hour pull of 400 pounds from the battery.

2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight (2, 000 lbs.) is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/Up = 1 hour of a 2, 000 pound pull by the heavy mechanism.

3) When the assembly reaches the top the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. Since it climbed the chain faster than it pulled the chain down, its descent will take longer than 1 hour for its energy generated down charge into the battery. EG/Down = 1+ hour of a 2, 000 pound pull charging into the battery.

EE/Up 1 hour of a 400 pound pull < EG/UP (1 hour of a 2, 000 pound pull charge into the battery) + EG/Down (1+ hours of the 2, 000 pound pull charge into the battery) = FE, EE/UP < (EG/UP + EG/Down) = FE.

With a heavier weight:

1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain, taking 3 minutes to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery that is represented by the expression 1N. Energy expended going up. EE/up=1N.

2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/up=.4N.

3) When the assembly reaches the top, the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. This descent takes 10 times longer than the ascent due to the heavy weight of the assembly, and the low gearing of the transmission, it 'creeps' down.

In 3 minutes going up, .4N was charged back into the battery. In 6 minutes going down .8N will be charged into the battery, replacing all of the energy the small motor expended. The remaining 24 minutes of the descent will charge 3.2N into the battery, Energy generated going down, EG/down=3.2N energy not needed for the mechanism's operation, free energy.

EE/up < (EG/up + EG/down) = FE, or, 1N < (.4N + 4N) = 3.4N FE

Connecting another PMD having more weight to the lower sprocket of the first will produce more energy. The chain goes around the lower sprocket of the first one, and up around the bicycle type of the second, so the lower sprocket of the first one is acting like the small motor does to turn the first one’s bicycle type wheel. A swing arm is place between the two wheels to play out more chain as the second PMD’s bicycle type wheel ascends. Then a third PMD connected to the second….

This will decentralize the grid using home generation modules, end fossil fuel energy plants, end nuclear, solar, wind, ocean energy generation plants. It will also allow for cars that recharge themselves as they travel down the road with modified PMDs.

[christianrolle]

Yay a new sustainable cities video I can't watch it yet but I'm sure it's going to be amazing!!

[TheBros]

I think people shouldn’t give up on climet change 💔❤️

[gwynadams]

I like the options listed here, but I'm not sure why I can't save it? I like to put the best ones on a playlist for reference later. Oh well.

[gagangayari]

Bring up some activity in which everyone can contribute to make the world a greener better place. India is burning.

[AhmedCapo]

#sustainability #sustainablecity
It's un amazing video about futuristic cities, I hope to add value to our planet with strong sustainability awareness.

[deepthiranjith]

did you went in dubai expo 2020 terra it is sustainable

[richardluta]

You missed out inclusive land Rights for all especially the marginalized groups