Recent Tweets
Loading tweets...
1 of 17: 7 trends for Planning Post-oil Cities.
In the first article in our series of 17 Sustainable Ideas for COP17, Robert Bowen reviews the Masters Thesis of Allen Rhodes, entitled Planning the Post Oil City. The trends highlight the obstacles or challenges faced in living in a city without oil but also illustrate the small steps that can be taken in overcoming them. Will oil-producing nations involved in the COP17 negotiations see a reduced demand for oil as a threat to their future and hence stifle negotiations in this regard?
Though we like to go about our ways as though nothing is going to change, the depletion of oil is inevitable. As supply decreases, so the extent of our dependency will become more evident.
In order to survive, the City of Cape Town must take decisive action and begin preparing itself for what- unless properly planned- could be a massive disaster.
Seven trends are outlined by Allen Rhodes in his excellent Masters Thesis, Planning the Post Oil City, which neatly defines some of the obstacles and by implication opportunities for Cape Town to prepare itself for a post oil world.
Notes
-
urbanmural liked this
-
b-sama liked this
-
joepeach liked this
-
hugovanvuuren reblogged this from futurecapetown
-
futurecapetown posted this
