Europe Home to More Sustainable Cities Than America, Ranking Shows

摘要

For all the conveniences that cities have to offer-from shorter commutes to neighborhood farmers markets-many are failing to meet the challenges of sustainable development. North America's largest cities fare poorly, with not a single one in the Top 20 of the second annual Sustainable Cities Index published by Arcadis, an Amsterdam-based global engineering and consulting company. The index was produced in partnership with the London-based Centre for Economic & Business Research and covers 100 cities zig-zagging the globe, from Tokyo (45th overall), which houses a tenth of Japan's population at about 14 million, to 400,000-strong Canberra (18th) in Australia. Zurich and Singapore are doing the best job on sustainable living, according to the index.