An article published in The Independent, a UK based newspaper, today discusses the changes that the Chinese nation is experiencing in relation to green living. ‘Grim apocalyptic nightmares’ are said to characterise previous environmental reports from China, especially developed areas where citizens who do not want to slow down economic growth to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions live.
Planners behind the development of Dongtan are not naive, they recognize the impact China has on the planet’s environment, and this project is simply a search for a new way forward. A sustainable way. A way in which renewable energy sources are utilized and a brand new coal power station isn’t being erected somewhere in the country every week.
This is possibly the single largest building project ever to be undertaken, building a city to house 500,000 in an ecologically positive way. Chinese are optimistic however, as are the media, and it is undoubted that China has recognized its contribution to global warming and understands the need for sustainable action. Plans to build a ‘holistic, systemic view of a city’ is underway just outside Shanghai and developers believe such sustainable city living is possible and truly within our grasp.
In the next decade 400million Chinese will move to urban areas and companies are targeted as Dongtan is encouraged as their choice of a place to live and work.
Life in Dongtan will be different. Self-sufficient buildings will exist, with local and organic produce consumed. All houses are guaranteed to be within seven minutes walk of public transport and conventional cars will be banned from the streets. These are a few, among many, of the green proposals to be out into action in Dongtan.
Peter Head, the director of ARUP, the company behind Dongtans’s development has commented on how the city may look like something from a science fiction movie, but he insists on trying and testing the underlying principles, eventually hoping to develop Dongtan as a blueprint for new developments and changes to existing cities.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/carbonfree-living-chinas-green-leap-forward-435208.html
Planners behind the development of Dongtan are not naive, they recognize the impact China has on the planet’s environment, and this project is simply a search for a new way forward. A sustainable way. A way in which renewable energy sources are utilized and a brand new coal power station isn’t being erected somewhere in the country every week.
This is possibly the single largest building project ever to be undertaken, building a city to house 500,000 in an ecologically positive way. Chinese are optimistic however, as are the media, and it is undoubted that China has recognized its contribution to global warming and understands the need for sustainable action. Plans to build a ‘holistic, systemic view of a city’ is underway just outside Shanghai and developers believe such sustainable city living is possible and truly within our grasp.
In the next decade 400million Chinese will move to urban areas and companies are targeted as Dongtan is encouraged as their choice of a place to live and work.
Life in Dongtan will be different. Self-sufficient buildings will exist, with local and organic produce consumed. All houses are guaranteed to be within seven minutes walk of public transport and conventional cars will be banned from the streets. These are a few, among many, of the green proposals to be out into action in Dongtan.
Peter Head, the director of ARUP, the company behind Dongtans’s development has commented on how the city may look like something from a science fiction movie, but he insists on trying and testing the underlying principles, eventually hoping to develop Dongtan as a blueprint for new developments and changes to existing cities.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/carbonfree-living-chinas-green-leap-forward-435208.html
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