Summary

City Sustainability is increasingly accomplished in new and different ways. At Arcadis we believe the best way to truly understand the sustainability of a city is to amalgamate attributes from the perspectives of people, planet and profit to form a holistic view of each location and its position on the sustainability scale. Only then can we obtain a clear picture of how sustainable, or not, a city is. As a citizen, I observe how sustainability affects my fellow city dwellers. Increased stresses like water shortages, climate change, housing prices and employment factors are impacting our quality of life. No city could acquire its unique identity without its people; the inhabitants are the heart of a city. They are the change agents, from the city mayors and their constituents who vote and implement laws that progress city needs, through the musicians and artists who influence culture, to the educators and industries that create human capital and new technology, services and products. People make a city.