Will All Cities Be Built Like This One Day?
"With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab...
View ArticleEco-Cities: Today's Garden Cities
"Yesterday's response to the announcement of 15 proposed eco-towns was similarly grudging. But if we must build to meet the Government's target of 3 million new homes by 2020, then these zero-carbon...
View ArticlePlanning an 'Eco-City'
"Treasure Island: A polluted military base is being transformed into a dense green neighborhood.""Dongtan: One of the earliest eco-cities announced may take longer than anticipated to...
View ArticleChina's Eco Island A Pipedream?
"Bold environmental solutions are as appealing to policymakers as they are to engineers who want to put their stamp on the cities of tomorrow. One such project is Dongtan, a planned eco-city on an...
View ArticleChina's Eco-Cities Stumble and Fall
"Today, almost nothing has been built. Some residents have been moved off the island, many of them becoming cab drivers in bustling Shanghai. Although the project was widely publicized internationally,...
View ArticleSaving the Earth One City at a Time
"The concepts behind the ecocity are fairly simple...[but] a major difficulty in moving toward ecocities is that cars have influenced urban design for 100 years. Many of us caught in this...
View ArticleNew Eco-City Planned in China
"China and Singapore are pooling expertise and finance to build a green urban community in north-east China, with the capacity for 350,000 people, near the western shore of the Bohai, one of the most...
View ArticleEco-Cities Progressing, Despite Bad Economy
"...a host of other efforts from Finland to Arizona are in the works, many with a mix of government and private funding. Publication Date: Mon, 08/31/2009
View ArticleEco-Development Gets Green Light in Hangzhou
This video gives a flyover of the winning proposal, which "includes hospitality facilities, residential areas, and public spaces, all clustered around five square miles of wetlands," according to...
View ArticleWhich is More Livable: Eco-Cities or Mega-Cities?
Future communities such as the solar-powered Babcock Ranch in Florida or PlanIT Valley in Portugal will have to prove that they are actually livable cities that people want and demand for. Publication...
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Iskandar Malaysia: The Future of Urban Living or Pipe Dream?
The plans for Iskandar Malaysia center on environmentally friendly technologies including renewable energy sources, waste recycling, and green spaces for social integration.Publication Date: Fri,...
View ArticleWill All Cities Be Built Like This One Day?
"With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab...
View ArticleEco-Cities: Today's Garden Cities
"Yesterday's response to the announcement of 15 proposed eco-towns was similarly grudging. But if we must build to meet the Government's target of 3 million new homes by 2020, then these zero-carbon...
View ArticlePlanning an 'Eco-City'
"Treasure Island: A polluted military base is being transformed into a dense green neighborhood.""Dongtan: One of the earliest eco-cities announced may take longer than anticipated to...
View ArticleChina's Eco Island A Pipedream?
"Bold environmental solutions are as appealing to policymakers as they are to engineers who want to put their stamp on the cities of tomorrow. One such project is Dongtan, a planned eco-city on an...
View ArticleChina's Eco-Cities Stumble and Fall
"Today, almost nothing has been built. Some residents have been moved off the island, many of them becoming cab drivers in bustling Shanghai. Although the project was widely publicized internationally,...
View ArticleSaving the Earth One City at a Time
"The concepts behind the ecocity are fairly simple...[but] a major difficulty in moving toward ecocities is that cars have influenced urban design for 100 years. Many of us caught in this...
View ArticleNew Eco-City Planned in China
"China and Singapore are pooling expertise and finance to build a green urban community in north-east China, with the capacity for 350,000 people, near the western shore of the Bohai, one of the most...
View ArticleEco-Cities Progressing, Despite Bad Economy
"...a host of other efforts from Finland to Arizona are in the works, many with a mix of government and private funding. Publication Date: Mon, 08/31/2009
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