Highlights from the 2010 Innovation Conference by McGraw-Hill Construction, Architectural Record and GreenSource magazine where architecture and engineering experts explored architectural, technological and cultural advancements that are fueling construction of large-scale, super-green buildings and cites in Dubai, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Manitoba and South Korea. James von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates reviews plans for New Songdo City in South Korea and underscores the importance of integrated, overlapping functions and mixed-use buildings in a sustainble city. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Robert Forest presents the Decarbonization of Chicago Plan, developed to reduce to carbon emissions in dense urban cores. David Owen of The New Yorker highlights New York City's sustainable merits; "residents use less energy than any other Americans."
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