More on China’s green city
18 06 2009The Sino-Singaporean collaboration to build a new green city near Tianjin popped up in the UK Guardian this week. As with other articles recently, the Guardian piece drew a contrast with the failure of the Shanghainese eco-city project being driven by the UK’s Over Arup, which (the asrticle says) over-reached itself.
I’m interested to learn that China is also developing eco-cities in Xinjiang and Liaoning provinces; I’ll have to try to find out more about that.
You know Vancouver’s Mayor vowed to make Vancouver the Greenest City in the World. I believe London’s mayor is also vowing the same thing. Building a new city from scratch is very Chinese, but the most sustainable building is one that is already standing. Surely the greenest city is one that already exists rather than building one and consuming all those resources specifically for a show piece…
You might want to check out http://greeningtheinnercity.ca to see some of the stuff I’ve been working on.