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I'm very concerned about the fact that there is a waste separation system.

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For me a green city should be with parks and with pure air.

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We want to make them pleasant to live, we want to make them sustainable in the future

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and sustainable growth in the future so that they can continue to grow.

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Yeah, there are some cities in which you have the centre that is quite nice and then the

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suburb which is awful and I think it contributes to people's behaviour to one another, especially

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in big cities.

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I would say where cars are completely prohibited in the centre of the city.

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Also it would definitely have to have facilities for people to be able to use bikes.

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A city where the air is very of good quality, there's no traffic congestion.

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Well when I have to describe a green city I'm thinking for most about public transport

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facilities.

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A percentage of our electricity is off renewable power, we have very well integrated transport,

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we just started building new tramways so we started digging up the streets to build a

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tramway to increase public transport.

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I think in Paris public transport, tube buses, are kind of well developed compared to other

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cities.

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The one thing I would definitely change about Brussels is the traffic congestion.

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I would I think apply a system like you have in London where you have to pay to get into

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the city centre.

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Decentralised energy supply, basically people being able to supply themselves with the energy

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meaning solar energy, wind energy and these kind of things.

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Like the centre, the shopping centre, pedestrian zones.

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Yeah I would definitely look at the situation with the carbon emissions that cars produce.

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Another very important issue I feel is a city's use of water and without fail I think it's

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once or twice a week the streets are cleaned with power jets that must waste incredible

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amounts of water.

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The green thing about Amsterdam is I think it is the city of bikes, I don't know any

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other city where there are as many bikes as there are.

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If you come there at the central station you see this huge bike shed.

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One thing I would definitely change in Brussels is to make it mandatory for companies to provide

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showers because it makes it more convenient for cyclists who go to their job to be able

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to go there freely and to be able to work freshly.

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Green spaces I think are very important, in my opinion for me it would make me decide

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which city I would choose to live.

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If the job is the same I would go for the green, that's for sure.

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I would go for the city which offers me more in terms of environment and where I have a

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certain balance for my work life.

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I think to attract young professionals cities should always care for the environment and

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how green it is because when young professionals come to work in the city they don't want just

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to get a good job, they want to enjoy their life, right?

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People will definitely stay in the city longer because the main reason they want to move

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out is because they want a better quality of life for their children.

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So if we can provide this quality of life within the cities then they will definitely

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stay within the cities.

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I think it's very important for them that they grow up in a green city, they grow up

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in a city where it's not only grey of bricks but it's also something nice to live in and

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healthy future for my children is very important to me.

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If the city had a lot of green aspects to it then it would be a motivating factor to

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stay there and you wouldn't be worried that your children were breathing in bad substances.

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In Belgium where you see that most of the people are trying to live outside the city

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centre because it's just too polluted and there's no place for kids or for gardens anymore.