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Ecocity World Summit 2008
It is always nice when current events and discourse compliment the content of one’s blog. Today is one of those days. Tonight an environmental photographer, Gary Braasch, opens the Ecocity World Summit with his presentation “World View of Global Warming … Continue reading
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Sustainable City Race, Part 3: Dongtan
The final part in this series will take us to Dongtan, on Chongming Island outside of Shanghai in China. This eco-city is of a vastly different scale than Masdar, which we examined in part 2. For their motivation, China has … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arup, carbon footprint, cities, construction, development, dongtan, london, masdar, sustainability, urbanism, wired
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Sustainable City Race, Part 2: Masdar
Today, the sustainable city race takes us to Abu Dhabi who, according to the Guardian, “are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions per capita than any other population in the world.” In 2006, they acted to change this. As the … Continue reading
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Tagged abu dhabi, architeture, carbon footprint, cities, construction, development, economics, foster, masdar, sustainability, urbanism, wwf
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