Masdar is a planned city in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is an initiative by the Government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company. Designed by the British architectural fi...
Masdar is a planned city in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is an initiative by the Government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster + Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, beside Abu Dhabi International Airport.
The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC). Initiated in 2006, the project is projected to cost US$22 billion and take some eight years to build, with the first phase scheduled to be complete and habitable in 2009. The city will cover 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) on a site 6.4 km2 (2.5 sq mi) in size and will be home to 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, primarily commercial and manufacturing facilities specialising in environmentally-friendly products, and an expected 40,000 workers will commute to the city daily. It will also be the location of a university, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), which will be assisted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Automobiles will be banned within the city; travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city. The city will be walled, to keep out the hot desert wind. The lack of cars will allow for narrow, shaded streets that will also funnel breezes from one side of the city to the other.Masdar City will be the latest of a small number of highly planned, specialized, research and technology-intensive municipalities that incorporate a living environment, similar to Novosibirsk, Russia or Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
Notable partners in the project through its Clean Tech Fund include General Electric, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce, Total S.A., Mitsui and Fiat. Construction of the first phase of the project is being managed by CH2M HILL and design of the central Masdar headquarters building has been awarded to Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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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
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.
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?
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This is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai. Abu Dhabi is not full of white people. lame bastard
I didn't say anything about "Dhabi" or "Dubai" either. Time to set down the hookah and calm the fuck down, pal.
1) so will the city be
2) they are targeting white people as their customers
You seriously need to take some valium, buddy.
FS