How to create sustainable cities?

According to me, we should think of how to make our planet more sustainable, which in turn would make our cities more sustainable. I feel that the federal standards and incentives should be mandated, which would include the elimination of the incandescent light bulb, more incentives to creates green businesses, standards for products being sold, and a commitment from the top to make businesses more sustainable. We should provide opportunities to the small and medium businesses to establish in cities. Employers tend to hire people who live in the cities, which makes the cities more viable. 

Though majority of Indians are living in villages,  City-dwellers are increasing day by day due to increasing number of employment opportunities available in cities.  According to me, our cities are presently getting more and overcrowded and localised and  at the  same time not expanding in the right way.  We are not following traditional and environment friendly methods in constructions.  Our objectives should be to improve living condtions in general (in villages as well ) and introduce environment friendly constructions and infrastructure developments and reduce the gap between living conditions of rich and the poor as far as possible.

Use simple mathematics as follows :

• Subtract all useless and lazy politicians from power.
• Add intellegent young,enthusiatic,smart individuals in power through political process. 
• Subtract:(demolish) all buildings/structures which utilize energy more than required.
• Add New building permits to those whose buildings are in building permit stage,and promote renovation of existing buildings in an energy efficient manner(provide some score which can be encashed in some or other way)
• Subtract :careless/useless government employees who are incharge of building permission and municipal corporation.
• Add: smart intellegent government employees(if required Government shud recruit more )
• Subtract :The idealogy of individuals like (who cares,its not my responsibility..etc)
• Add : I will do it, we have to do it, its our responsibility.
• Subtract all byelaws/guidelines which are not clear to understand or which can be used aas a loop hole to the guidelines.
• Add : clear directives and guidelines.
• Subtract : Thinking that this(creation of sustainable cities) is not achievable.
• Add : Think in a right direction how can this(creation of sustainable cities) be achieved.

Today we find that our energy resources are going down day-by-day and people in cities are the sufferers. So we should look for some other alternative energy to survive and sustain. The cities should adopt renewable energies as the alternative. There are many renewable energy like solar, wind and hydro etc. This will help the cities to develop and also to sustain.

By change of thinking, attitude/behaviour and habits ...

For any change to manifest outside, individual and self-change is must !

Each city or municipality have very innovative and intelligent community or persons. They need to be included in development of a city or municipality. AGe old rules and and regulations sponsored by Politicians trying to capture Gaddi and AIded by amenable bureacrats degenreats human socity and the community. Rucbhik's case  in Haryana and a village in  same Haryana where each village road is paved and and cleaning and are supervised by villagers. So clean is the village Urban people are approaching to by plot in village. are classic example. My beurocrats upbringing has to be stopped from plotician's clutches.

Day by Day population is increasing in urban areas. Population increase is overtaking amenities at faster speed.

Big villages near the cities, setellite towns, 2 tire cities,3 tier cities/towns should be accored infastructure facilitieslike rail , road connectivities,and drainage, water, electricity,sanitation so that it helps in sustainability of existing cities and development of urban areas which helps in generating employment..

GREEN CITY SHOULD BE ENVIORMENT FRIENDLY AND ENERGY EFFICIENT.WE MUST TRY TO GAIN ALL ESSENTIALS FROM NATURAL SOURCES,LIKE SOLAR CELLS,SOLAR COOKER ,BIO GAS ,RECHARGING WATER,WIND ENERGY MAY ALSO BE UTALISED IF POSSIBLE.