2024-12-22T02:26:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150322493/xzero-city-is-kuwait-s-contribution-to-the-smart-city-movement Josh Niland 2022-09-02T12:46:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/75/75bf0d0eb9bd538e495e138f11bf7dcf.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A Dubai-based developer named URB has entered the fray of futuristic community planning in the region after publishing plans for XZero City, a pedestrian-friendly, net-zero carbon community it says will eventually grow to accommodate up to 100,000 people.</p> <p>Billed as a &ldquo;new paradigm in green urban living,&rdquo; the car-free city will spread out over a 16-square-kilometer (6-square-mile) swath in the southern <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/43915/kuwait" target="_blank">Kuwaiti</a> desert connected by a resilient landscape which serves as the &ldquo;social glue&rdquo; to self-sustaining homesteaders occupying one of its initial 30,000 modular residences.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/27/27b5b2aaeac8c225e6d01f84295d2c75.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/27/27b5b2aaeac8c225e6d01f84295d2c75.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy URB</figcaption></figure><p>By separating the development into different Commercial, Medical, and Educational hubs, URB says it hopes to provide a high quality of life powered by advanced renewable energy technologies, fed by biosaline agricultural produce and vertical farms, and enhanced by an equestrian track, a nature conservation center, and other attractions marketed vaguely as &ldquo;edutainment.&rdquo;&nbsp;<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/73/73867ff1a25732db43098809d8b8c8c0.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/73/73867ff1a25732db43098809d8b8c8c0.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy URB</figcaption></figure><p>An ecotour...</p>