Masdar City : A Model of Urban Environmental Sustainability
2014; Volume: 4; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2248-9622
AutoresNikhil Manghnani, Kapil M. S. Bajaj,
Tópico(s)Global socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
ResumoMasdar City is an archeology project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Its core is a planned city, which is being built by Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the government of Abu Dhabi. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster and Partners and engineering and environmental consultancy Mott MacDonald, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a zero waste ecology. It initially aimed to be a sustainable zero-carbon carfree city. . This article is a case study about “Masdar City,” a planned carbon-neutral town in Abu Dhabi. The article describes the key characteristics of Masdar City.
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