Liquid real estate Issue 05
Masdar: Abu Dhabi aims for first zero-carbon city
Financing the cities of the future
Cutting data centre carbon emissions
Amman: An ancient city looks to the future
Dongtan: China firms up eco-city proposal
New Songdo: Korea rethinks urban development
When Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed stooped to lay a stone in the ground on February 11, it signified more than the inauguration of yet another poorly built, concrete-heavy Middle Eastern city.
By kicking off the $22 billion Masdar City project, due for completion in 2016, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi further promoted claims by the United Arab Emirates to be the most forward-thinking and sustainably built and managed nation in the world.
Nothing about Masdar, located in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, wants for ambition. Designed and developed by a clutch of the world’s leading engineers and architects, it is being promoted as the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city, powered entirely by renewable energy sources. ...
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