Hugh Pearman reviews the coming wave of eco-cities from Dongtan in China to Foster and Koolhaas's plans for Abu Dhabi.
While none of the designs are in themselves the sole solution he concludes.
"If there's ever going to be a tipping-point that gets everyone designing new kinds of sustainable cities, it will come when the conventional alternative just gets too awful and expensive to contemplate. Here's a thought: it seems to me that eco-cities will be a lot nicer places to live in. Given which, when they are built we'll all want to flock there and they will be huge successes. In the end, consumers as much as politicians may demand truly green cities."
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who is koolhaus?
rem's german doppleganger
Woops
Thanks.
When i was typing it up this morning i thought something looked off. I was thinking it was the possesive case.
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