tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198725602225380188.post5994771097073113395..comments2024-02-28T06:46:45.028-05:00Comments on Go Green: A Green City - MasdarJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02220004667538143849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198725602225380188.post-61795376826042055222008-10-15T20:28:00.000-04:002008-10-15T20:28:00.000-04:00To you it may be a fantasy but to others it is an ...To you it may be a fantasy but to others it is an ideal and at the very least a start. It will force others to think about how they plan cities in the future. That is not to say that every city has to be "green" but there are concepts in this design plan that could apply to cities around the world. No this one city will not have a major global impact (and what 1 project does really) but it will start to get people thinking. I think that is the key. <BR/><BR/>When I wrote the blog I didn't include all the items that the city would have in it. Including the food aspect. They do plan to grow their own food within the city. <BR/><BR/>Will they end up being carbon neutral? Who knows but that is the designers plan. There are lots of ways to achieve this. Companies have been doing it for a long time (offsetting their emissions) so the idea is not that out of realm of possibility for a city. <BR/><BR/>New cities are popping up all over the globe. People continue to move into new area's and little by little communities become villages then towns then citiies. I don't see why this concept is so far fetched. <BR/><BR/>And what is with all the talk of flooding??Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220004667538143849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198725602225380188.post-83274005923580545592008-10-15T13:50:00.000-04:002008-10-15T13:50:00.000-04:00wow, this place sounds quite idealic! thanks for s...wow, this place sounds quite idealic! <BR/>thanks for sharing this. <BR/>-Rach-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198725602225380188.post-68247136289757261022008-10-15T04:47:00.000-04:002008-10-15T04:47:00.000-04:00I don't know where to begin to list the reasons wh...I don't know where to begin to list the reasons why this is total fantasy. A Green Dream, artfully created with computer graphics but standing no chance of ever fulfilling any of its claims.<BR/>First, the site is how many feet above sea level? And we've all heard of sea level rise surely. <BR/>Second, every city depends on a huge area of farmland to grow its food, and a vast network to get it there. All these hi-tech jobs don't create food, and it's nonsense to claim carbon neutral when to keep something like this alive would need massive amounts of carbon. <BR/>Thirdly, there isn't the time to create new cities, many countries are already experiencing major flooding, which will increase over time making many existing cities - built on coasts just like this proposal - vulnerable to flood. New Orleans is just the first.<BR/>This is yet another hi-tech idea which would, even if possible, be nothing more than a sticking plaster. What happens to the teeming, overcrowded, slum-rich mega cities that sprawl at present across the planet, expanding as more and more people flock to them from the countryside? <BR/>One small newly built 'town' for rich Arabs to wait for sea level rise solves nothing globally. It is now the eleventh hour, we're forty years too late to do anything other than prepare for meltdown [literally of the ice caps and glaciers], inundation, global famine and the resultant chaos and strife that will cause. It may be reassuring to some, but its a distraction, and no solution to anything.***https://www.blogger.com/profile/11830698543278455711noreply@blogger.com