"Imagine maintaining a steady 70 degrees in your house high in the New Mexico desert, even as outside temperatures vary between 100 and minus-20, all without spending a dime on power."

Submitted by jason - 2007-08-08 16:44:59
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Interesting article on Wired about the design of a new Chinese metropolis, built from scratch as a model for a green city.

From the article:
Dongtan's master plan — hundreds of pages of maps, schematics, and data — has almost nothing to say about architectural style. Instead, it outlines the world's first green city, every block engineered in response to China's environmental crisis. It's like the source code for an urban operating system. "We're not focused on the form," Gutierrez explains. "We're focused on the performance of the form." He and his team imagine a city powered by local, renewable energy, with superefficient buildings clustered in dense, walkable neighborhoods; a recycling scheme that repurposes 90 percent of all waste; a network of high tech organic farms; and a ban on any vehicle that emits CO2.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-09 15:50:42
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