pollution “hot spots” are centered around the world’s largest urban conglomerations. Worldwide, cities consume more than 75% of the world’s energy and emit 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, since burning fossil fuels provides power to the skyscrapers and other infrastructure that define urban areas. Because effective policies to reduce carbon emissions have developed slowly, architects and designers have the unique opportunity to re-imagine their buildings as active solutions to combating poor air quality and climate change. architizer/en_us/blog/dyn/91374/can-architects-solve-our-cities-pollution-problems/?utm_source=Architizer+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dd03725044-Daily_Newsletter_1726_27_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8035dcda2d-dd03725044-380082765#.Uc9dVznUMeB
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:27:01 +0000