Climate: Green metropolises

The US city planner David Owen sees the big city as an ecological paradise - especially his hometown New York, because it is both green and compact. The same goes for London, writes Simon Jenkins in the conservative daily The Evening Standard: "Londoners are much like New Yorkers. They use space intensively and energy efficiently. They mostly occupy long-constructed buildings, sharing walls, roofs, ceilings and heating systems with others. They also share transport, street lights and entertainment. They walk, cycle or use public transport (mostly electric) to get to work or play. Londoners crowd roads, shops, restaurants, theatres, pubs. They communicate with each other without having to take long journeys. They do not heat, light and cook in isolated homesteads, where almost every journey requires the carbon emissions of an internal combustion engine."

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