The Marginalian
The Marginalian

20 Steps to Sustainable Cities

Why changing our city-dwelling ways is the only way to keep our cities.

By Maria Popova

We’ll be brief today, because our video spotlight isn’t. But it is as culturally relevant and compelling as they come: It’s a talk by World Changing founder (and TEDster) Alex Steffen, given at the Danish Architecture Centre, where he makes a radical case for sustainable cities with 20 proposed solution spaces, each the domain of great urgency for change.

Long as it may be, the talk is altogether excellent — if there ever was a blueprint for a healthy planet still inhabited by our urbanite species, Alex Steffen has just laid it out.

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Published April 2, 2009
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2009/04/02/alex-steffen-sustainable-cities/
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