ABSTRACT
Peter Calthorpe has been developing for his entire professional career, is the role that urbanism can play in reducing global climate change. Urbanism is always made from places that are mixed in uses, walkable, human scaled, and diverse in population. Urban solutions to global climate change need to take place at every scale from the self-conscious individual household all the way to multinational organizations. But the key to urbanism as a climate change strategy is regional planning and concerted metropolitan-wide action. A growing number of cities, towns, and rural communities have adopted climate change plans and policies to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. Traditional urbanism has three essential qualities: a diverse population and range of activities, a rich array of public spaces and institutions, and human scale in its buildings, streets, and neighborhoods. Green urbanism is what people get when combining the best of traditional urbanism with renewable energy sources, advanced conservation techniques, new green technologies, and integrated services and utilities.
