Greening our cities makes them extra habitable and extra sustainable, however is that this coming at too excessive a price for some?
At present, about 56 p.c of the world’s inhabitants is city; by 2050, it will likely be almost 70 p.c.
Cities have the potential to be actually environment friendly hubs of humanity that may help sustainable residing; nonetheless, a lot of them haven’t been designed that method. So city planners around the globe are attempting to create “inexperienced” cities and “good” cities. However how inexperienced and good are these city improvements? And do they lead to a greener metropolis for everybody, or only a chosen few?
Within the fifth episode of All Hail The Planet – a sequence delving into the social, financial and political forces undermining significant international motion on local weather change – Ali Rae speaks with the director of the African Centre for Cities, Edgar Pieterse; the director of the Barcelona Lab for City Environmental Justice & Sustainability, Isabelle Anguelovski; and a professor of city planning on the College of Lagos, Taibat Lawanson.