The Surprising Ways Cities Work to Clean the Environment

For a number of cities around the world, the environment has become priority number one. Growing awareness of how cities contribute to emissions and damage the environment has city planners and municipal officials rethinking how they should run cities.

This change in perspective has led to many new green policies in cities of all sizes. In some cases, these programs work quietly in the background—sometimes without city residents even noticing them.

These are five surprising ways that cities have used municipal programs and urban design to clean up the environment.