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[lexneuron]

"Expensive" is an illusive and confusing term. What really counts is if it is "affordable."

[Sacrypheyes]

at some point, people will have to face the reality that there is no such thing as sustainable city past a certain size, for a simple and good reason: cities get most if not everything they need from outside: food, water, energy, goods, you name it. and the denser and bigger the city, the more difficult it is to provide it with all it needs.
in a world where we are supposed to rely less (if not at all - but is it even possible at that point?) on fossil fuels (which pretty much 95%+ of transportation relies on, if not 99%+), there is no way we will be able to keep the economic globalization as it is today.
those who dare say or think the opposite are, in my opinion, either misinformed or lying through their teeth.

cities will mechanically get smaller at some point, that is inevitable. and no amount of vertical farms or green rooftops will be enough to keep megacities as big they are.

[hansng]

The "experts" already let it slipped. Sustainability is just a marketing jargon. Going "green" will be expensive, and such "green coy" are extremely profitable. When govt announces going "green", they are giving away free money to these coy. Let me just ask a simple question "what causes the last ice age if u are sure CO2 causes global warming"?

[toomanymarys]

5:00: "Sustainable" energy will always be expensive, so we need taxes to make all energy just as expensive to make people use the forms we like.

[thomastan]

Trade is the key factor to sustainable city.