Sustainable living in urban areas

What areas of sustainability need to be targeted in Curitiba?

Transport
Green space
Waste disposal and recycling
Slum housing

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What areas of sustainability need to be targeted in Copenhagen?

Transport
Housing/building design
Food
Energy Efficiency

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Curitiba Transport?

Articulated buses and bus lanes etc

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Curitiba Green space

Creation of parks

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Curitiba - waste disposal and recycling

Green exchange on the outskirts of the slums.

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Curitiba slum housing

The slums will be cleared but to solve this Curitiba has used Site and Service schemes, where the government offers low interest loans on the land and free house design for the people. The residents are trained to build the houses and make up a large par

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Copenhagen transport

62% use cycles and 546km of cycle routes

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Copenhagen
Housing and building design

“Retrofitting” is when old buildings are modernized with energy-efficiency in mind, without taking away the aesthetics of the architecture. Copenhagen is using this technique, planning to decrease 10% of its electricity usage and 20% of its heat consumpti

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Copenhagen
Food

Encourage organic
Locally produced
Food grown on roof tops

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Copenhagen
Energy Efficiency

Carbon neutral by 2025
22% of city's energy produced from win turbines.
99% of households use left over heat from electricity production.

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Copenhagen
Waste disposal recycling

400,00 tonnes of garbage burnt each year.
Roof of power plant turned into a ski slope.
330 trucks a day of rubbish burnt

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What different groups of people influence sustainable urban living strategies?

Planners
Politicians
Industrialists
Property developers

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