The UK Sustainable Cities Initiative

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) recently launched a new initiative designed to address the design and management of cities across the UK.  The Sustainable Cities initiative gathers data from two years of research by a team of 30 experts and the English Core Cities group.  The goal to make cities low carbon has grown to a massive project addressing affordable housing, energy security and job generation.  The group has identified climate change as a direct challenge to the efficency of managing a town or city and have created this initiative as a framework of priorities for the future.

Better city design has been widely discussed and the idea of a sustainable city is increasingly attractive to local governments.  Urban design and management involves the ability to network green systems on a scalable base.  The Sustainable Cities website clearly lays out the priorities for project and covers everything from energy and waste to the value of public spaces.

[via Dexigner]