Masdar City

[Jgdyar]

Whats with all the wingnut Left Behind christian extremist crap posted here? This project reminds me of Star Trek, promising high-tech innovation and lessons for cities the world around.

[Amari321]

This is how the revived Roman empire is gonna be in the end times. Satan's final empire

[xJaliscoKid]

Sexy

[Kor88Di]

I'm studying Sustainable\Renewable Energy Engineering right now. I hope I will work in it one day.

[Borat911]

the next step is putting microchips in all the inhabbitants so computers can track their everyday movement and status ... everytime you take a shit the system will know it and maybe send a robot to wipe your ass ... gotta love the future ... it's just a giant "big brother house"

[aayush962]

HELLO!!!!!! how can we even imagine a city without vehicles@I think its not a good ideaaaaaaaaaaaa@@@@\



[ramassist2]

let's see, The United Arab Emerites were perfectly OK with polluting the world with oil carbon and getting wealthy beyond measure- now that the sustainability, UN world domination/ environmental socialist agenda is in play. now the Sheiks are perfectly fine with getting in on the ground floor of the new energy. I guess as long as they stay in charge of energy resources everything should be Ok - regardless of what that energy resouce is.

and by the way....who is at the gates of these cities?

[ramassist2]

where are the doors and who controls them?

[deadballo]

Wow, you people really think a city can be planned from the ground-up? Talk about ignorant of history and a complete lack of hubris. So, what exactly will the people of Masdar produce? City's don't just happen; they grow organically. Masdar won't work no matter how much money you pour into it, and I'll be laughing hard when this dystopia reveals itself. It kinda reminds me of those suburbs which were created out of 100% plastic.

[pundadah]

SHYTE AUDIO ....

[hamburg0123456789]

Terrible quality video

[agnoses]

wonder if they will floridate the water and want your first born



[Sparclen]

@agnoses

They already are fluoridating our water :')

Assholes.

[SunKing2]

A zero-carbon self-sustaining city is certainly a technological marvel but one must also be aware that it may just be another manifestation of excessive materialism at the expense of the near slave-labour that was used to create it.

[koftiras]

are you totally brainwashed people?????this is the future jail,and you want to go to live there willingly?open your eyes and wake up against the new world order!

[oegelaaboegela]

nice sound quality

[oegelaaboegela]

it IS a beautiful project. but it is only possible when.

abu dhabi doesnt get bakrupt.

norman foster is still alive at the time

and people stop acting selfish... ( that'll be never)

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[53Pollinerichardo22]

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[DavidMichealPerre]

cool but how will peramedics, policemen, or firefighters get around if therez an emergency??

[CliffordTrahanVEVO]

Fuck that.

[ewilli2772]

Its a shame that relegion and realted hatred will destroy this great and beutiful city too!

[ewilli2772]

Its a shame that relegion and realted hatred will destroy this great and beutiful city too!

[Curdo1985]

It's a scam.

[watsupzzful]

simply breathtaking. I wish I can live in that city

[SpiffyNips]

"Future Cities" is soooo yesterday. Ipads, Twitter, electronic books. They are all outdated antiquated concept from the 1970s.. The future beyond our future is the past.

[taciturniq]

@SpiffyNips your sense of time might not be on earth

[SpiffyNips]

@taciturniq It's on earth. I'm just so bored listening to how the Android phone can play movies on a super-small screen, listening to Apple tell everyone "smaller is better", and how "less is more", and how carbon-footprints this, conserve water that, how they're creating a paradise, when in fact their dream is of a dystopia not a utopia. When this dystopia is done and over with and the shooting has stopped, then a true Utopia will emerge. We'll be able to take a hot shower and not feel guilty.

[hridayatmavan1]

Wind turbines and fireworks --- how will the birds survive???

[aiasrs]

the future of slaves

[joeyoung1988]

Carbon neutral city payed for with oil. Hmm...

[malangsob]

looks horrid...like living in a big prison...yich.

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[ThomsonFly12331]

designed by british? WHY DONT THEY BUILD SOMMA THAT SHIT IN BRITAIN!!

[dragaodragao93]

0% emissions ? what about farts ? :/

[BraveManNewWorld]

@dragaodragao93 ,, XAXAXAXAXAXAXXA

[kissrocknroll1]

What an irony

They got money from selling oil

[COPY10]

WTF is going on with the sound? It's killing my ears.

[VimisMoscow]

GREEN ENERGY IS THE KEY OF THE FUTURE ! PLEASE VISIT VIMISM COM TO LEARN ABOUT A NATURAL HYDROGEN PROJECT PRODUCED FROM THE BLACK SEA

[lol0000wut]

0:35 Borg cube

[offeron87]

@lol0000wut resistance is futile

[mailxxxxxx]

And right next to this city, there is the Formula 1 race cource.

[juron76]

@mailxxxxxx Maybe that race cource will be an Eco-Formula 1 race cource.....

[teatime90]

So we need 136 000 Masdar Cities to be able to house the entire world population.

And each city is 22 billion USD, total bill then is 2 992 000 000 000 000 dollars. That´s almost 3 million billion dollars. Or 45 times the entire worlds GDP combined ( 65 trillion USD )

Lol money is such a hilarious thing. xD

[focista6]

@teatime90 if people shift their mentality, there won't be such a thing as money, therefore it won't be a problem :p

[budbomb1234]

what's the title of the audio track in the background at the start?

[RgSchmitt]

"planned"...well said cuz they ain't got money for that

[CookieMonzta1995]

And this is the reason money fucks up the world and the people in it. They have enough of them to last ages but yet you cant have it as you don't have the money.

[S0up3rD0up3r]

Why don't we do this in the US? Oh yea because we need oil. "Drill baby drill!"

Fuck this country. 

[mes200]

@S0up3rD0up3 no you need this in the US becuase oil isnt going to stay foreover

[MuZiQFrEaQ]

@S0up3rD0up3r you fucking shit just becouse your jealouse from the uae dosent mean u have to say that u and ur fucking "usa" were tring to help the world you know ... trying to fix what u americans destroy ok ?

[Djkabten]

@MuZiQFrEaQ perfect comment

[Djkabten]

@S0up3rD0up3r no man fuck you n your country mother fucker dont say shit like that you fuckin faggot before you get raped by the country that your saying fuck to dumbass

[TIGITOE]

The many corners aren´t good Feng Shui wise !

[furkizbey]

Chick at 7:00 is hooottttt ti

[Muradlek]

I'll build the city like this. Jack Fresko design...

[blaziermissy]

@Muradlek exactly. Because IF we don't transition to a RBE designed by Fresco......the sociopath like rich will hog up the resources in their heroin addict like gluttony.

Look at all of the people starving on this planet....and Fresco's social and economic system could change that, but the corporate world is mind-locked with greed and social hierarchy.

[Muradlek]

@blaziermissy, I think, people are getting dumber every year. Television and the media are hypnotized people more and more... I noticed, young people no longer care about the future of the country, resources, etc. They are more concerned with entertainment, money ... Our structure of power, this system aims to degrade people. I wish, I get a rich guy, and I will invest to this project, the Venus project...

[blaziermissy]

@Muradlek hah!  I know what you're saying, but the Venus project wants people to help spread awareness that this alternative solution IS Possible. All we have to do is spread awareness, for now. When enough people realize that it IS the sustainable solution...the transitition will happen. The people, in numbers...actually do hold the power to enact it. ALL people, even the very wealthiest, would be better off in the long run with the Venus project.

[walter0bz]

@blaziermissy - the very wealthiest wont be better off, they'll fight to keep their advantage.

we're all going down in the longrun :)

sustainable living looks like the chinese countryside, not rich experiment of Masdar City.

[blaziermissy]

@walter0bz Yes, in fact, the very wealthy would be better off no longer having to spend and inordinate amount of time figuring out how to keep their wealth growing, worrying about security, maintenance of possessions and could actually break free from their addictions and the demands of an over-inflated ego that enslave them to gluttony and become part of humanity again. Continued-

[blaziermissy]

@walter0bz In a conducive environment humans desire to be accepted. Why do you think they try to impress each other with wealth? In part, that is a huge reason that drives the behavior...in-group acceptance & respect.

[walter0bz]

@blaziermissy - if it wasn't monetary wealth, it would be number of wives or whatever.. IMO there will always be something to compete for because of variation in nature, & human preferences

[blaziermissy]

@walter0bz You mean human behavior and the propensity to have addictive behavior patterns despite knowledge at hand.

Yeah well, that's where a unbiased educ comes in. Most people do and would care to live in a conducive environment for long term survival if they're informed.

[walter0bz]

@blaziermissy -

even with edu, addictions are still a hazard.

for rich and poor alike. (i do accept the point about addictions being an escape from harsh conditions, but we do see rich people with drink/drugs problems)

i think we fundementally have a problem that we're 'designed' as hunter-gatherers, and our tech-based world is fundementally un-natural, hence we create lots of "shims". e.g. sport provides release for 'tribal' instincts. FPS games = fake hunting activity etc..

[justindr660]

I'm Masdar's English teacher but I hope to be the city DJ.

[ntenn45]

i like how every body is white

[kmarinas86]

When I purchase items in bulk, I usually get lower costs, so why should it be different for a cracker shaped (i.e. not tall) mall-city?

[ISIpaki]

I will be happy to live there provided that Gays are not allowed in that city. That should be the world's first gay free city.

[as2711]

looks nice, but you gotta be rich to live there so count me out

[T3rr0rWr1st]

Guys the cost of living there won't be dramatically higher than it already to live in AD...I mean it cost shittons of cash to live anywhere in that country..but this city isn't going to be any extra ridiculious. (:

[DEStrukcionierius]

sounds promissing and a lot better than now... did you all knew that for example in London people live aprox. 9 years shorter becouse of any kinds of emissions... think about the project carefully before commenting I give it 5+

[mikaelum1]

even gayer

[hemenbaiba]

keep it simple!

[Blitzgeist]

Perfect control over the population. Mind you that this would be a city for the rich and powerful.. for the every day citizen the "smart-city" would more resemble to a prison... welcome to NWO

[goodbyestangeles]

@Blitzgeist

Sure it might be a "city for the rich and powerful"

But it's the rich and powerful who are consuming much more than the average person, let alone the poverty stricken. I think it would be nice for our rich an famous to find sustainability trendy and appealing as opposed to conspicuous consumption and waste.

[Blitzgeist]

@goodbyestangeles

You don't actually believe that they would spend money on their "slaves" the people that in the end finance this - the 3rd World, working class people - no my friend this version of the futuristic city is only for the ones that truly deserve it because of the amount of money they have on their bank account.

[TomTom2227]

my dad works for masdar and he is like the 3rd most important person ther...he is not the project manager of masdar city but i am pretty sure that we r goin to live ther...

does anybody know why this is so special???

because its the first CO2 free city!!!

[Ghosthouse4423]

Oh Yes ... imagine

Imagine this coulds also be a new Babylon

imagine there are only the richest of the rich allowed to be.

Imagine the costs of this Project

Imagine they can control the People in this Place better .

and so on ...

This is New World Order - Global Governence Bullshit.

[GeorgNagle]

I prefer to live in Berlin City, forget Masdar....

[kontroverse53]

this is completely new world order. such cities won't have any culture or history

[M1chl42]

Perfect city, perfect technology... perfect control over the people.

NO to this insane idea!!

[lovami9x]

Hope this will be the future of the earth.

[sebamedia]

Come On, THAT CITY IS A BEAUTIFULL PROYECT, THE FUTURE OF HUMANS

OPEN YOUR MIND

[SuperQazpl]

nice trap,but i can see the cheese.i want to live in this city i live now

[SuperQazpl]

i see the cheese,but i can also see the trap.i want to live in my city

[smokeb3atz]

to bad u have to be rich as shit to live there

[TheSleepyLunatic]

Not that it's biased or anything lol

[trisk77]

People this City will not be perfect, and hey who nows how long us GREEDY Top of the food chain Homo sapiens have left on this planet, but at least it's a change from "The Norm".

Think back to the ancient Egyptians, they were the ones who took a risk, and constructed magnificent New Cities.

The Men and Women from UAE are just following in the foot steps of their arabian forbears, but in a 21st century sort of way.

Nothing wrong with that as I can see....

The world will be better for it.

[spankthamunkey]

Dont be fooled by the graphics & green land in this video, lol. it NEVER looks like they plan it to look.

I live in Abu Dhabi & worked in Dubai Media city. Media city was supposed to look like this, now if u look at it, its just large patches of dry sand and desert, where the "plants & trees" were SUPPOSED to be, lol.

This is just another bull shit propaganda video. The water to grow those plants evaporate in minutes! Would take millions of liters of water a day just to keep them alive.

[goodbyestangeles]

@spankthamunkey

I believe they are actually considering local drought resistant vegetation appropriate for the climate... not the lush tropical plants dubai wants

[ZeitgeistRising]

John, why should you need money in sustainable city? For increasing crime rate? For making profit by war? Sure it looks like a city of the venus project but at least it is no...

But all in all we can proud that mankind is able to think about a life without pollution..may the next step is to think about a life without money :)

[Curdo1985]

There is no such a thing as ZERO carbon. Fix this term.

[pakau]

i think everyone undestands zeitgeist, and everyone wants it, the reason im talking about the 70 000 people is not to build this city,... its for maintaining it.. they say on the vide " 70 000 worker places " and " commercial offices " .. so its nothing new.. its just a new city build today ... the venus project is a little bit differente.. its a city like that one... but it doesnt require labour or money to operate.. VP is a "Sustainable" city.. because it "Sustains" itself.

[pakau]

yes and where would the 70 000 workers live ? .. inside the city ? guess not..

still monetary system propaganda.. we have to make this with no money.

[john5246]

it doesn't take 70,000 people to build that city, we have machines you know

also they would bring out trailers to live in, I can tell you're a zeitgeister because you can't fathom this being built in a monetary system. It can be built with money and FOR profit. It would be great if we could have a utopia with no money and sharing resources but it has to be done in a monetary system first and people's ideologies about money will change.

[LifeIsScience1]

Love the city!! haha And who cares if it's populated by white(caucasians) or arabians!!! And incase you guys haven't noticed...there's a-lot of white/light skinned arabians that look caucasian(doesn't mean they are though)! In short, grow up and who cares.

[john5246]

The only problem I have with it is that there won't be many women there. I'm american and I like it here, if you go to dubai you better hope you are married because men outnumber women there by a lot. this might be one of the reasons arab men hold each others hands in the street when walking.

Basically until they evolve to accept slutty women and are more open about sex there is not a chance I will be going there.

[LifeIsScience1]

True point, in that case I think Masdar city/Dubai is probably going to be the best for retirees/couples or just to get away and go on vacation...or for gay people too! lol

[ChristianLove2008]

Masdar city is located in Abu Dhabi not Dubai. Abu Dhbai is the capital of the UAE, Dubai is only a small emirate to the north of Abu Dhabi

[LifeIsScience1]

Hmm...not sure then, but I saw a video once, and read an article that said Masdar city was suppose to be the crown jewel of efficiency and Dubai itself(since it was suppose to be located right next to the Dubai airport). I might be wrong, my information is probably outdated or I misinterpreted, so thanks for the clear up Christian.

[spankthamunkey]

you're crazy! Gay people are illegal here...its hell for them. Trust me..i know. i live here and cant wait to ge the fuck out.

I live in Abu Dhabi.

[videosfranco]

lugar perfeito.

mas o custo deverá ser alto para morrar numa cidade assim.

por mim vou morar hoje mesmo lá, ajudar a contruir e tudo. ruim mesmo vai ser falar o idioma. alguem me contrata pro setor de esportes. hehe.

[toeg1]

Could everyone take a chill pill. The "people" represented in this vidad are people most likely to be populating the streets according to the makers of the vid. They are, for the most part, Westerners, Muslims, and light-colored, Caucasian looking. That is not to say that they are prejudice against others.

Take Marketing 101 before you start playing Alex Jones on a vidad. Women voices as answering machines aren't because men will die soon.

THINK!!!

[PHenry500]

This is an Arab city full of white people? Uhh...

[Futileuae]

You idiot, pathetic fuck!

This is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai. Abu Dhabi is not full of white people. lame bastard

[PHenry500]

According to this ad it is.

I didn't say anything about "Dhabi" or "Dubai" either. Time to set down the hookah and calm the fuck down, pal.

[Futileuae]

Dude can't you fucking compare 3d life to REAL life in vids

[PHenry500]

Why not? It's an advertisement. If the ad is full of white people, they are implying:

1) so will the city be

2) they are targeting white people as their customers

You seriously need to take some valium, buddy.

[FactualSolutions]

ANYONE interested to live in a city like that IS INVITED TO LIVE - IT IS UP TO YOU - Watch online, for free, right now - "Zeitgeist Addendum" and you will see what i am talking about :)

FS

[danielbooom]

this is the future , but not for everybody. most people will be in tent cities or dead by then. like always, this also will be for the wealthy and a few lucky one. ...to make the whole world like this, you would have to destroy it first and rebuilt it again.

[strazdinch]

this is future! f*** I would like to work in Norman Foster biro! The top of all!!!

[waitindubai]

Hope that chick is drinking ORGANIC, FAIR TRADE coffee...some how I doubt It. I'm sure the Arabs won't want to be rolling in those gay PRT's when they have a HUMMER, BMW V8, MERC TRUCK and a PORSCHE at home. Sic spaces...like the Photovoltaic panels....can I have a Job?

[WOOrEc]

what a beautiful city! I'd love it to live there

[waitindubai]

It looks like a computer chip from the sky..you sure you want to live in a computer?

[marcepun]

niezłe miasto

[vinibadboy01]

* City 7 Stars :) *

[lights21002003]

*****5stars*****

[hitmowaka]

I guess that if this entire city is built and if in a time gap of, say.... 5 to 10 years it shows up to be as magnific as they show it to be, many other cities will start to show up or renewing themselves following this kind of example.

It will be hard and expensive, but if it works, then the world may begin to be a better place to live in. And at least our environmental problems will start to fade away, giving us more time to work on other problems....

[T3rr0rWr1st]

@hitmowaka You have to understand that this city only works the way it does due to the enviroment...citys like this cannot exist around the globe

[KingWilliamMB]

@T3rr0rWr1st u idiot .. u can do this around the globe .. u just have to change some details .. but than it will work ..

[walter0bz]

@KingWilliamMB -

wrong.

Sustainable ecofriendly living is a luxury that will only work in limited number of locations.

We can't all live like this. When the oil runs out there will be population decline, unless we get nuclear fusion

You might want to check how much of the construction work and technologies behind it can themselves be built using purely sustainable energy.

[KingWilliamMB]

@walter0bz hmm i know that ... in some points ure right .. but as i know what science did in the last century ... i think that there will be other resources that we could use ... other methods ... other technologies...

and belive me i know what im talking about ...

[walter0bz]

@KingWilliamMB -

modern knowledge may allow for higher sustainable Carrying Capacity than 16th century, but it wont be anywhere near as high the oil age. Maybe half the current number of humans max.

[blaziermissy]

@hitmowaka As long as "profit" is in the picture, it can't sustain.

[mclovesth]

this place is like a dream come true i can;t wait till its done and i can go visit it

[6775077]

masdar city? pah!

I have a better idea:

What if we build all the houses of mud, get all the food, water and energy from nearby fields through wheat and manure.

Let's call the city.....Ur

(:

Have a nice day everyone!

[DanFrederiksen]

and paid for with oil money..

shame the video is not in HD though. quite poor quality.

[indyfitz]

also.. do you think the laborers building this city would be able to afford living here? mmmm probably not. which is unfortunate. If only the citizens themselves had to pitch in and build it.

[indyfitz]

So you pack a bunch of people into the interior of this city.. I didn't see anything about the possibility of crime management.. Or the possibility that with so many people living in close quarters, there might be some tension now and then.  This all sounds like a dream, but where's the reality of eliminating the trash that is produced by so many people? Another question.. why a square? The future city of the world is a square? Could have been more imaginative. Pretty cool idea though...

[pleasent73]

If it is a planned city one should assume they will have total and complete control over who gets in. Not only that, but the people who could afford to live in such a place are most likely not criminals. Bel Air doesn't have a crime problem namely because there is a lot of control over who gets in and out, so crime management isn't a major issue.

[pleasent73]

And maybe a square is the most efficient for a planned city. I also doubt people will be "packed", because I imagine a project the large is rather expensive and no one would pay to live uncomfortably.

[notorious113]

what is the price of a home in this city? where can i buy/invest from? who do i speak to?

[dayluze]

Can't help but think that whatever 'zero carbon emission' energy they are consuming could be wiser spent on a larger population on a smaller footprint...

[dayluze]

Quite a piece of PR, but v short on details!

Lighting and air condiitoning for those (dark) high, deep, glazed commercial spaces with massive voids - how much energy would they consume? Are they going to rely on natural lighting and cross ventilation???

Those 40,000 people who can afford to live there - how many of them will have one car per household? Spreading them over such relatively large area connected by light rail and 'floating cars'??

[wrfrk313]

actually its 50,000 apparently and cars are BANNED in the city., no floating cars just floating trains, the technology is all here.

[BoogsterSU]

Those pods happen to be ULTra taxis. And do you know when is it going to be completed? Maybe 2012. Looks like I maybe still going to dream myself living in Songdo, SK, another sustainable city under construction. P.S. Masdar's official languages might be English and Arabic...

[73elephants]

Although the ones in the visualization are based on ULTra's design, the ones that are being built built are coming from a Dutch company called 2getthere, and have been styled by Zagato, an Italian design consultancy, and as a result look rather sleek. If you google "2getthere zagato", you'll find pics.

[wrfrk313]

the city will be done by 2016

[thehousedanceproject]

Its time...

[vNrdcon]

nice....

[chriss2003]

The project estimated cost is US$22 billion. So far the Government of Abu Dhabi have contirbuted US$3 billion, while the rest of the partners have managed to contribute US$300 million ONLY. So.. do you think MASDAR will be built ??!!... I don't think so.

[77idontcare77]

I believe construction has already started on Masar? No?

[chriss2003]

At the moment there is some construction work at the ground, it's for the University building, which is one of many other buildings within MASDAR project. However, this could be the first and the last building to be built due to financial reasons.

[starfish2525]

Guys. Its already in the process of construction. All your dream are coming true. Hopefully as beautiful as you thought it will be. ;)

[hulei]

It will be built saving our earth and achieving world peace hopefully so we all have a common goal to accommodate ourselves

[747K]

yeah It way too out there to come true. It would very very very nice if it did. What do you think?

[747K]

Do you think masdar will be built?

[wck1215]

I don't think so, maybe need more money.

[Futileuae]

@wck1215

they already started building.. abu dhabi can afford it in cash sweety :)