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What are the eco cities in Middle East?
What are the technologies used to achieve low or zero carbon footprint ?
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Well there is Masdar City in Abu Dhabi ,Ziggurat and Xeritown in Dubai, Urjuan and Energy City in Qatar and ones in the outskirts of Amman, Libya and Kazakhstan.
Each is a zero-carbon, zero-waste city that is fully sustainable. Design of these cities places a heavy emphasis on the use of renewable resources including solar power in order to maintain the sustainability of the area.
It is designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimisation of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and water pollution.
A sustainable city can feed itself with minimal reliance on the surrounding countryside, and power itself with renewable sources of energy. The crux of this is to create the smallest possible ecological footprint, and to produce the lowest quantity of pollution possible, to efficiently use land; compost used materials, recycle it or convert waste-to-energy, and thus the city's overall contribution to climate change will be minimal, if such practices are adhered to.
These cities are achieved through various means, such as:
-Different agricultural systems such as agricultural plots within the city (suburbs or centre). This reduces the distance food has to travel from field to fork. Practical work out of this may be done by either small scale/private farming plots or through larger scale agriculture (eg farmscrapers).
- Renewable energy sources, such as wind turbines, solar panels, or bio-gas created from sewage. Cities provide economies of scale that make such energy sources viable.
- Various methods to reduce the need for air conditioning (a massive energy demand), such as planting trees and lightening surface colors, natural ventilation systems, an increase in water features, and green spaces equaling at least 20% of the city's surface. These measures counter the "heat island effect" caused by an abundance of tarmac and asphalt, which can make urban areas several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas—as much as six degrees Celsius during the evening.
-Improved public transport and an increase in pedestrianization to reduce car emissions. This requires a radically different approach to city planning, with integrated business, industrial, and residential zones. Roads may be designed to make driving difficult.
-Optimal building density to make public transport viable but avoid the creation of urban heat islands.
-Solutions to decrease urban sprawl, by seeking new ways of allowing people to live closer to the workspace.
-Green roofs
-Zero-emission transport
-Zero-energy building
- Sustainable urban drainage systems or SUDS
- energy conservation systems/devices
-Xeriscaping - garden and landscape design for water conservation
Each is a zero-carbon, zero-waste city that is fully sustainable. Design of these cities places a heavy emphasis on the use of renewable resources including solar power in order to maintain the sustainability of the area.
It is designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimisation of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and water pollution.
A sustainable city can feed itself with minimal reliance on the surrounding countryside, and power itself with renewable sources of energy. The crux of this is to create the smallest possible ecological footprint, and to produce the lowest quantity of pollution possible, to efficiently use land; compost used materials, recycle it or convert waste-to-energy, and thus the city's overall contribution to climate change will be minimal, if such practices are adhered to.
These cities are achieved through various means, such as:
-Different agricultural systems such as agricultural plots within the city (suburbs or centre). This reduces the distance food has to travel from field to fork. Practical work out of this may be done by either small scale/private farming plots or through larger scale agriculture (eg farmscrapers).
- Renewable energy sources, such as wind turbines, solar panels, or bio-gas created from sewage. Cities provide economies of scale that make such energy sources viable.
- Various methods to reduce the need for air conditioning (a massive energy demand), such as planting trees and lightening surface colors, natural ventilation systems, an increase in water features, and green spaces equaling at least 20% of the city's surface. These measures counter the "heat island effect" caused by an abundance of tarmac and asphalt, which can make urban areas several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas—as much as six degrees Celsius during the evening.
-Improved public transport and an increase in pedestrianization to reduce car emissions. This requires a radically different approach to city planning, with integrated business, industrial, and residential zones. Roads may be designed to make driving difficult.
-Optimal building density to make public transport viable but avoid the creation of urban heat islands.
-Solutions to decrease urban sprawl, by seeking new ways of allowing people to live closer to the workspace.
-Green roofs
-Zero-emission transport
-Zero-energy building
- Sustainable urban drainage systems or SUDS
- energy conservation systems/devices
-Xeriscaping - garden and landscape design for water conservation
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