A found an article done by Wired about a suburb of Shanghai thats being designed from the ground up to incorporate many of the current ideas about sustainable urban design. This includes building high density housing, preventing sprawl but expanding along a transportation corridor, building water zones to control flooding, and using solar/wind plus capturing lost heat from buildings and burning organic matter. And around the city they plan to have lots of green space, including high yeild organic farming. Also they are banning all CO2 emitting transportation vehicles.
The opportunity to build cities from the ground up is an awesome chance to experiment with ideas in sustainable development. And like the article mentions cities like London and New York are products of the 19th and 20th century. Now it is time for 21st century cities to start rising. China is obviously a good place for this, with its massive population and heavy pollution problems.
As far as the article says, the project as been approved, and is waiting to break ground in a couple years. I know theres a somewhat similar project that has been started by William McDunough and Co. According to this article things don't seem to be going so well. None the less, I'm interested to see what happens with the Shanghai project, and I think a project like that would be a really awesome project to work on.
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You write very well.
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