Model Ecocity Development: Create a living example of an ecologically and economically sustainable urban development that leverages the evolutionary culture of Northern California in a real estate development integrating advanced green design features, network-facilitated community development,
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Ecocity Builders is a non-profit organization dedicated to reshaping cities, towns and villages for long-term health of human and natural systems. ... An ecocity is a human settlement that enables its residents to live a good quality of life while using minimal natural resources. Buildings; Its buildings make best use of...
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Such an eco-city can be a model of sustainable development that points beyond the contradictions of economic growth based on energy consumption. Wenchuan could draw admirers just as Curitiba in Brazil does for its excellent public transportation and environmental urban planning.
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As the model area for Ecocity Trnava, an existing part of the town in the north of the historical core was selected. ... ; Ecocity Trnava 3D model (zoom); Technopark+citypark; Present sugar factory premises; New use of the factory premises; Turning a trunkroad to a boulevard;; Masterplan (zoom);; Part of our team (zoom);
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China's Eco-City: Model for Urban Sustainability ; Zero-emission cities are within our technological reach. Now, an experimental "eco-city" near Shanghai will help create the necessary blueprints for the greening of the future metropolis. ... Chinas EcoCity Model for Urban Sustainability...
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Throughout the Eco-City Alexandria strategic planning process, more than 40 Eco-City Studio students (spring 2007, fall 2007, spring 2008) conducted research on model sustainability practices (programs, policies, and initiatives) undertaken by local governments, primarily in the United States.
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Planners say ground-breaking model in Tianjin could be copied across developing countries ... This is a ground-breaking mega development in China that could serve as a model for eco cities across the developing world, say to its backers.
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Model of Ecocity as displayed at the annual Denver People's Fai ... Can we come up with a better model for the world to emulate, one more environmentally sustainable, economically self-sufficient, and civil?
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Catholic and Protestant pupils from St Vincent de Paul's Ligoniel and Ballysillan primary schools have been working all week at the Waterfront Hall to build an 'EcoCity' model of their local neighbourhoods.
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No wonder then that the plan to build a model "eco-city" near Shanghai is being looked at with such interest: London's mayor Ken Livingstone has claimed that "global warming was created in the West, but it is increasingly to the East to which we look for a solution." And the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba)
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