[sustran] Can Foster + Partners' Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly
Sustainable?
Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory
edelman at greenidea.eu
Thu Mar 6 04:40:37 JST 2008
"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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