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MIT Climate Portal Writing Team Featuring guest expert David Hsu, MIT Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning

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How can we reduce the climate footprint of the suburbs?

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Suburban residents’ climate-warming emissions are higher than city dwellers’, mainly because of higher energy use in homes and transportation—so those are the first places to look for savings.

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Suburban residents' climate-warming emissions are higher than city dwellers', mainly because of higher energy use in homes and transportation—so those are the first places to look for savings.

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“Single-family homes are really kind of what we think of as the American typical home, but they’re probably the most inefficient way to build housing in terms of energy,” says David Hsu, MIT associate professor of urban and environmental planning.

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We think the relative higher risks of depression found in sprawling, low-rise suburbs may be partly down to long car commutes, less public open space and not high enough resident density to enable many local commercial places where people can gather together, such as shops, cafes and restaurants.

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Depression is more common in the suburbs than in city centres - new research

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Areas of Danish towns and cities with fewer people and more cars come with a higher risk of depression.

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Lack of community due to less public infrastructure

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39% increased risk of depression for urban areas in western European countries and in the US.

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The group most affected by rural school disadvantage is Native Americans, who are a small share of students nationally but much more prominent and highly disadvantaged in rural areas, particularly in some parts of the country. These figures suggest a strong case for including rural schools in the continuing conversation about how to deal with unfairness in public education.

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School Segregation and Disparities in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas

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Much of the literature on racial and ethnic educational inequality focuses on the contrast between Black and Hispanic students in urban areas and white suburban students. This study extends past research on school segregation and racial/ethnic disparities…

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Racial differences

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In metropolitan regions, suburbs emit up to four times the household emissions of their urban cores.  While households located in more densely populated neighborhoods have a carbon footprint 50% below the national average, those in the suburbs emit up to twice the average. In metro areas such as New York,

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It's not just cities-suburbs and exurbs need to adopt and implement climate plans too

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No city is an island. The relationship between urban cores and the suburbs and exurbs surrounding them should not be a one-way street in which only the central cities guide climate action. Leaders across entire regions need to look beyond the planning efforts of individual jurisdictions and test out new measurement approaches, investments, and collaborations to jump-start climate action at a greater geographic scale.

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Suburban sprawl, essentially landscape conversion, is a major issue effecting biodiversity loss.

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water pollution

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habitate fragmentation

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Social fragmentation

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Intentional segregation

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gentrification

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Energy consumption