Lighten our darkness

Can we reinvent the city?

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Güssing, Austria: 85% renewable energy

Barcelona: 45% solar water heating

Copenhagen: self-sufficiency

The post-commuter city?

…travel to work areas are getting larger

…21.8m productive hours lost to commuting

Back to the garden city?

Incredible edible cities

Urban farming: not so wild

- solution for shrinking cities (Detroit)- temporary uses (Bradford hole)

- combines quality of place with urban cooling

Energy, food, leisure…

Waste to energy: bio-methane

- can be collected and processed locally

- ready supply of organic material

- reduces dependence on fossil fuels

Green infrastructure for urban cooling

Seeing the light?

Rethink behaviour and the rest will follow

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