The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. This second edition dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure, reviews current trends in urban inequality, and features many more examples and new international case studies spanning the globe. In this improved and expanded second edition of The Sustainable City, Steven Cohen and Guo Dong explore how enduring and successful cities hold the key to global sustainability. Infused with optimism and backed up with forceful arguments, this book provides a much needed policy perspective as to why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to build sustainably.