With geographic boundaries and public Transit becoming a theme on this list, it’s probably shocking to no one that New York City is the star of this list– bounded by multiple bodies of water (and New Jersey) and featuring the most extensive mass transit system of any American city, New York has long fostered the sort of environment where citizens don’t even own cars. Of course, most still do, but it’s possible not to, and a glimpse into our more easily sustainable future.
Next on our hit parade is San Fransisco– much like Honolulu, the SF-Oakland area has its hand forced by geography, and it also has an excellent rapid transit system– the BART– that enables a tightly-packed populous to move around as they would with automobiles in suburban areas.
The third-densest city in America bucks its reputation. Long the poster child for urban sprawl, the reality of L.A. is simply that it’s that big– density EVERYWHERE doesn’t make a city any less (or more) sustainably developed. The difference between Los Angelenos and the rest of the citizenry on this list is that L.A. has far more commuters on the road and not using mass transit.
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