Tuesday, January 5, 2010

city of dreams

city of dreams



sekarang aku ngah tekun bekerja utk produce satu report pasal 'Green Technology'. tetiba rase menda ni adalah 'in thing' skarang. n i found this.....bagus leh kongsi ni...the new inovation of city planning---and of course its promote green tech

King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia

1-1NewCities

cost : $80 billion

population : 2 million people,a million jobs

area : 150 square miles – core plus suburbs – on the edge of the Red Sea and just an hour away from Mecca

Status : complete by 2020

Songdo, South Korea

3NewCities

area : 1,500 acres of reclaimed land

component : 80,000 apartments and 60 million square feet of office and retail space

cost : $40 billion

status : complete by 2015



Waterfront City, Dubai

4-1NewCities

component : centre of a development made of artificial islands and canals called Waterfront, 44-storey skyscraper (bulatan kaler silver)

population : 1.5 million

Guangzhou, China

5-2NewCities

population : 10 million

component : green spaces, space-efficient housing, an expanded transportation system and a new waterfront.

Rawabi, West Bank

7-1NewCities

For the last 50 years, Israelis and Palestinians have struggled to find common ground in every sense imagineable – and the fallout has blighted the Palistianian economy and the region’s standards of living. The new city of Rawabi intends to change all that.


Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

8-1NewCities


population : 50,000 people

area : 6-million-square-metre

fact : Automobiles will be banned within the city walls, Up to 80% of the city’s water supply will be recycled, and waste will be reduced to as close to zero as possible


Ziggurat Project, Dubai

10-2NewCities


component : self-containing sustainable community of one million people, integrated transport system

fact : ziggurat – the colossal terraced pyramids of antiquity, typified by the famous monumental temple at Ur in what is now modern-day Iraq


Crystal Island, Moscow

11-1NewCities
area : 27 million square feet and nearly half a kilometre highpopulation (tower )
component: 30,000 people

component : 3,000 hotel rooms, 900 apartments and a thriving business sector


X-Seed 4000, Japan

11-2NewCities
area : 6-kilometer-square footprint, it would reach 800 floors into the Japanese sky

cost : $900

fact : inspired by Mount Fuji and actually betaller than Fuji by 200 metres

status : was never meant to be built-hahaha


*aku paling admire crystal island-briliant design n X-seed-kalaulah ia dibina..mcm new utopia la

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