Sustainability of Cities

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Sustainability of Cities
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1SUSTAINABILITY OF CITIES
As described by Xuemei et al., (pp. 72), a city is termed to be sustainable in the terms
and conditions that the management practices and the growth of the urbanisation sector in the
cities. The sustainability in the cities helps preserve the cultural heritage and the identification
of a city through the ideologies it adopts towards the renovation and restoration of the
resources. With the help of the examination of the study, it was analysed that 50% of the
population of the global world prefers to reside in cities (Michael and Phillipe). The
migration of the significant number of the community has become a crucial and complex
problem for the management of the cities to maintain and meet the demand and the basic
needs of the same. The terminologies of overpopulation, the increasing consumption, the
devastating pollution as well as the depletion in the natural resources have degraded the
quality of the cities and also led to complex challenges in environmental as well as health
challenges in the cities (Dimitris N). In this connection, the given study tends to investigate
the necessary criteria through which the sustainability of any city is measured.
As implied by Jonathan, in order to measure if a city is sustainable or not there are
many vital areas of undermining the same. In this connection, the first criteria recognised as
opined by Boyd and Pablo (pp. 90), is the access of the city towards the public resources.
This means the comfort level of the citizens of the town is a critical factor in order to estimate
whether the city is sustainable or not. Specifically, the opportunities the residents of the city
get towards the quality of education sector, the health care centres, the ease in the access of
public transportation, the cleaning services and also the safety and quality of the air are the
factors that are termed to highly required for a city to be sustainable. In the modern era of
urbanisation and globalisation, the tastes and preferences of the population change within
their stay in the cities and so it turns out to be a significant need for the cities to adapt to the
solutions that would help to sustain the resources and therefore the city.

2SUSTAINABILITY OF CITIES
The next vital criteria investigated in the context of measuring the sustainability of
the cities is termed as the urban renewal actions (Ayyoob, pp. 12). The same means the
renovation of the public spaces in the cities is termed to be a fundamental trait in the
measurement of the sustainable cities. The public streets, the squares, the parks of the cities,
the modern irrigation as well as the urban areas and spaces all are the vital factors of the
sustainable living that measures the civic renewal action of the cities. The same helps in the
perseverance of the cultural heritage and identification of any city that is heading towards the
ideology of restoration and renovation to maintain itself. To ideally specify, an urban renewal
city is the one which is changed in an entire integrated way that designs the incentivise to
adopt the sustainable practices resulting in the effective and efficient use of resources of
energy as well as water.
The third criteria examined is the reduction in the harmful emission of the CO2
gases. In this connection, as stated by Gary W and Stephen J, the decline in the CO2
emissions as well as others harmful and poisonous gases towards the ozone layer are perhaps
measured to be the most recognisable measure for a city to be committed to the sustainability
of its environment. Therefore, the factor of lowering and taking steps to reduce the CO2
levels can be achieved by means of shifting towards the long-term use of renewable energies,
the vertical gardens as well as an adequate supply and adaption in the alternative means of
transport such as bicycles, trains and electric buses that would reduce the elimination of
harmful gases in the environment of the city. Along with this, the commitment of the
household sector towards the saving of water and energy is also needed for sustaining the city
and its resources. Thus, the management sector of any city should focus on implementing the
usage of eco-friendly vehicles as introduced in the innovated technology of science and thus
becoming the largest city of the zero-emissions city in the global world.