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

[Craig Johnson]

The big issue with transportation and Masdar city is that while
transportation within the city will be sustainable and cars will be banned.
The developers are planning on building massive parking garages outside the
walls of Masdar connected to the city via a light rail line. It is pretty
much a shopping mall concept applied to a whole city. I don't know how many
parking spots they are projecting to build and publicity is silent on this
matter, but i would say it would be at least 10,000 parking spots.

Craig Johnson


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory <
edelman at greenidea.eu> wrote:

> "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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