The city descriptions end with a series of summary observations and recommendations based on that city and a table that links the city’s specific urban contexts back to each step in the aforementioned urban sustainability “roadmap” (see Figures S-1 and 3-1). The city profiles are designed to serve as “guideposts”-highlighting, for specific urban contexts, opportunities and challenges that illustrate the committee’s urban sustainability “roadmap.” Each profile begins with a description of the urban area, including relevant metrics drawn from Chapter 2 and specific sustainability challenges, and then outlines noteworthy sustainability efforts the city undertook along with other significant issues discovered during the committee’s research, largely guided by the urban sustainability principles outlined in Chapter 3.
The committee was responsible for developing the agenda for each meeting in consultation with regional stakeholders in an effort to ensure that the presentations reflected place-based knowledge and approaches to sustainability. Topics under consideration included energy, natural resource management, climate adaptation, economic development, hazard mitigation, public health, social equity, and land-use considerations. urban contexts along dimensions of city size and density, geographic location, primary industries, and the key challenges to sustainability ( Figure 4-1). The additional seven city profiles, including New York City, New York Vancouver, British Columbia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Grand Rapids, Michigan Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Flint, Michigan, were selected to reflect the diversity of U.S. Los Angeles and Chattanooga were selected for the committee’s public data-gathering meetings due to their varying urban characteristics including size, geography, and contextual sustainability challenges such as water supply, air pollution, and energy.
As part of its evidence-gathering process, the committee organized a series of public data-gathering meetings in two metropolitan regions, Los Angeles, California, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, to examine issues relating to urban sustainability. As described in Chapter 1, the committee was tasked with examining examples from metropolitan regions to understand how and if sustainability practices could contribute to the development, growth, and regeneration of major metropolitan regions in the United States.
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