[sustran] Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

"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 
Emirates has now turned it attention to building the world's most 
sustainable city. Masdar City, a $22 billion initiative to build a brand 
new, zero-emissions city for 50,000 from scratch in Abu Dhabi, got 
underway last month.

But can the media hype about Masdar City be true? TreeHugger put 
together a panel of experts [including Richard Register, Peter Droege, 
De. Sahar Attia, Christopher Choa and Gil Friend] to take a closer look. 
Here's what they had to say..."

Full story: <http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/masdar-roundtable.php>

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