Newer sustainable development initiatives aimed at building ‘climate-smart cities’ are encountered as discriminatory by some due to a limited capacity to avail of these services. This chapter examines some of the factors influencing capacity in this regard, noting how they are linked to socio-economic background, age, gender, class, and urban structural design, as much as lifestyle choice. For the mobility challenged, the visually impaired, the wheelchair-bound, the elderly or young children, for instance, travelling to and from city parks or river walks and enjoying their restorative benefits can be a hazardous undertaking for several societally conditioned reasons. By shifting the focus somewhat to the question of opportunity to engage with the city’s green and blue spaces (beyond the issue of availability or lifestyle choice), the discussion below centres attention on the ways in which the city’s sustainable development plans are experienced as beneficial to some but also as a limitation on the freedoms of others.