(UN News) Towns and cities are home to more than half of the world’s population and responsible for around 70 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions driving the climate crisis, which is why urban planners in Brazil are leading a design revolution that could point the way to creating built-up areas with a dramatically smaller carbon footprint. It’s somewhat of an understatement to say that the way that cities have traditionally grown has not been a positive experience for the planet. Poor (or non-existent) planning has led to a litany of ills, such as flooding, heat islands – when built up areas become much hotter than rural areas – and water scarcity.At the same time, cities have become detached from food and nature. The growing distance between urban life and farmland fuels deforestation, emissions, and a loss of ecological awareness. But Marcia Mikai and her colleagues think they have an answer to unsustainable urban sprawl. They call it the agrihood.
Welcome to the ‘agrihood’ – the neighbourhood of the future? | UN News
