Today the English 174 classes watched a short video called “Toward Sustainable Urban Development and Architecture.” It featured the Cool City proposal from the SDCJ business group. The video explained plans to create a future city in the Arabian Gulf.
To sustain life on earth, we must reduce our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 50% of present levels. Nearly all of the CO2 comes from transportation and buildings. Cool City is planned to reduce up to 60% of these emissions.
Cool City will use natural energy from the sun and wind, with lots of water and trees to prevent the “heat island” effect. Cool City is laid out in a circular pattern with a radius of one kilometer from the city center transport hub. Transportation around the city is by monorail, light rapid transport, solar ships, hybrid cars, and pedestrian decks. New buildings called eco-towers will use fifteen different technologies to be energy-efficient.
In my opinion, the video shows a very imaginative approach to a future city. This vision may become reality in Abu Dhabi, where the desert is blooming with the wonderfully cool new Masdar City.
2 comments:
I think that cool cities will make the difference in this region, but we need to know more about these cities and how will they apply the technology they have to reality. I hope that these cool cities are going to reduce the carbon emission to 50% as the movie is mentioning.
I agree with this outstanding project, and I hope this will be a great example to those other magnificent cities. I am glad to know that the gulf region is making a big achievement toward reducing the CO2 emission in the air.
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