the first REALLY green city!
hey, check out this video!
it is of a planned city to be built outside of abu dhabi … all green. carbon neutral, “zero” waste, no cars (more or less), and all made within a futuristic, up-scale (yet traditional) sort of way.
here is the article that goes along with it.
whether you agree with all their plans or not, it is this sort of thinking and imagining that we need to do more of, because ideas like masdar city will only lead to other ideas that will then lead to others …
and in my opinion, that what we need most right now in terms of urban planning. and interesting that this is coming from the middle east.
north america is certainly not the leaders in this sort of thinking, but i sure wish we could be (and i’d love to be on the planning committee!!).
c.
