Sustainable City Of Toronto: The Reference Framework For Sustainable Cities

According to Pope Francis, “Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is a harm done to humanity” (Undispatch, 2016). This can imply that people should attend to sustainability over a long term. A sustainable city is developing and providing the things that society needs without a negative effect on the next generation. Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities (RFSC), which consists of the economy, society and environment, is one of the methods to help a city approach with sustainability (Pearson, 2015). However, these considerations have to be generated or balanced with each other. Toronto is one of the cities that have made progress in becoming a sustainable city.

The charming city of “Toronto” was set up by the British in the late 1700s and became the capital city of Canada since 1834 (“Why Toronto”, n.d.). Once, Toronto is used to be the most livable city in the world (Toronto Newcomer Strategy-Progress Report, 2016). With a population of 2.82 million, Toronto is the biggest city in Canada and the fifth biggest city in North America (Toronto Population, 2016). Almost half of Toronto citizens are foreign – born people, so it is a very international multicultural city. However, it has strengths and weaknesses in terms of its sustainability (Toronto population 2017, 2017).

First of all, Toronto’s economy seems extremely well managed.

In the economy part, there is very high average in employments and rapidly growing of population. In addition, Toronto also has a good management in environment by creating a project to prevent and reject the cause destroy environment, especially air pollution and energy. Lastly, there are a large number of newcomers and high quality in public transportation. Those indicate a sustainable city in term of society. From a strong and balance framework in Toronto, this city can be a good example of a sustainable city in the