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The next generation of cities will be different from those in the past, which requires a review of conventional means of solving problems. In this context, there’s been a mismatch between the growth of cities and their infrastructures, generating an increase in the complexity of the problems to be solved in society. An analysis of urban mobility, preservation of environmental resources and sustainability can help us to understand part of the steps required for cities to overcome these difficulties.
This urbanization and an understanding of the need to preserve environmental resources requires an awareness of society as a whole, which needs to reflect the importance of sustainable development for the future to provide better living conditions for its people in the process of developing cities. Development, no longer basically social and economic, must now be aligned with environmental development, shifting the focus of institutions, based mainly on economic factors, to sustainable societal factors, seeking solutions that enable economic and ecological spheres.
The purpose of this paper was to contribute to the sustainable development in the city of Porto Alegre and provide lessons that could be apply, using San Francisco as a model of resilient city.