<aside> 🚧 This is a W.I.P. research and intelligence sharing document on how to build a self sufficient city. The city will never actually be built, it is simply used as a tool to imagine an environmentally sustainable way of living in a metropolitan area.
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People like living in cities because of the convenience, everything is close-by. Including friends, food, work, ….
But, cities are inherently unsustainable the way they're build today. They're a major contributor to climate change, and more than that, they alienate people from nature.
A modern city does not take into account food requirements for their citizens, so agriculture is outsourced. Which, in turn, causes CO2 emissions for transport and a severe excess of produce which is discarded. Waste disposal is a potential catastrophe for the environment.
https://planningtank.com/city-insight/advantages-living-cities
https://planningtank.com/city-insight/disadvantages-living-city-life