ABSTRACT
Creating sustainable human settlements will be one of the grand challenges in the coming decades (Rees and Wackernagel 1996, Glaeser 2011, Seto et al 2014). On a global scale we overuse our planet’s renewable capacity (WWF 2014), and we seem to have already crossed the planetary boundaries regarding several impact categories and in others the limits are getting closer (Rockström et al 2009). It is vital to investigate what would make cities sustainable in order to fulfil our ever increasing needs and find opportunities to live, work, urbanize in a more environmentally affordable way.
