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Energy-efficient strategies

New cities Existing cities

Mega cities

Small and medium cities

- Mixed uses
- Mixed housing
- Renewable energy stations
- Energy code
- Building materials
- Recycling facilities
- Adequate transportation system
- Self-sufficient cities with jobs
and services
- Increasing walkability
- Increasing density

- Minimising sprawling
- Public transportation
- Monorails, subways
- Energy code
- Recycling facilities
- Decentralisation of investments
- Increasing walkability and
pedestrianisation

- Preserving the narrow street pattern
- Compact urban mass
- Recycling and energy
- Renewable energy stations
- Improving infrastructure networks to
minimise loss
- Local building materials
- Generating jobs within the local
context
- Transportation system efficiency
- Finding vacant land innovatively and
locating needed housing and services
- Introduction of appropriate
technologies

FIGURE 2.7
Energy efficiency strategies in cities.

strategies and to integrating them in urban planning. These strategies are
summarised in Figure 2.7. On the personal level, it is recommended to try to
use one's car less and separate his garbage as the former mayor of Curitiba,
Brazil, advises [81].

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