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Sustainable cities need more than parks, cafes and a riverwalk

  • Written by Trina Hamilton, Associate Professor of Geography, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Small tankers unload along New York's Newtown Creek in 2008.Jim Henderson

There are many indexes that aim to rank how green cities are. But what does it actually mean for a city to be green or sustainable?

We’ve written about what we call the “parks, cafes and a riverwalk” model of sustainability, which focuses on providing new...

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