By Looking At The Effects Of London’S Transport System, What Are The Future Plans For A Greener City
...around them, sucking materials and resources from farther and farther away, as the land was stripped and resources taken.’ (Mc Donough and Braungart, 2002:95). The book Cradle to Cradle examines the life cycle analysis of a product, and shows how we as designers should design for environment (DfE). Applying such analysis on transport is becoming more important than ever. People’s health, Kyoto Protocol and even the Olympics games in London2012 are all an essential reason why London needs a shift in the green direction.
The term green is used loosely in the sense its boundaries are wide apart. Sharing a car to get to work is being green, whilst also walking or cycling to work is also green. Two very different ways to travel, yet one still helps to fill the atmosphere with pollutants, how is that justifiably green? Well at the moment, with the continuing efforts to make the world cleaner for the sake of global warming and reducing green house gases (GHG), the phrase ‘every little helps’ really means what it says. It would arguably mean that to be green is just to be greener, in which case, if everyone took on an the approach to switch the car for the train or bus, then they would be doing their part to help the environment.
I aim to look at why London is one of the most polluted cities in terms of air quality, and to also look at some of the cleanest ways to travel around London, and to also look at disputing articles that have previously tried to condemn the transport system in the past.
Future transport is an area that is continuously making the shift from the typical monster of the polluters, to an environmental approach to get to A to B. I want to investigate further the introduction of new transport systems, and look at what other cities are using now to tackle similar problems that London are facing today, such as pollution, congestion and climate...
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