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Cities and Pollution For years cities have been painted as environmental villains. Just as cities dominate global trading systems so they lie at the heart of global systems of resource consumption and pollution. Yet resource consumption and pollution is created not by cities but people. London may produce approximately 60 million tonnes of CO2 a year but would these environmental impacts be any less if London's 7 million inhabitants were living in eco-villages spread across the south of England? If this were possible, we might imagine more food growing, local power generation, even reed beds for sewage treatment. Cities are central to cultural and economic life. The dense, walkable city may be the most sustainable form of human settlement for the majority of people. For all their benefits, new settlements and eco-villages will only ever serve a fraction of the population. However urban sustainability is a complex issue as Robert and Brenda Vale...

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