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Post Carbon Fellow Warren Karlenzig was quoted on environmental considerations in this article on 'Brand New Cities'.
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Other eco-city experts are excited about the new Masdar City, located just outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. One of the major goals of this ambitious $22 billion project, which broke ground in 2008, is to be a city with zero waste and zero carbon emissions. To that end, Masdar will feature many urban uses of green technologies. For instance, one of the solar technologies it is testing is called "concentrated solar power," a tracking system with mirrors and lenses that focus sunlight on water to heat it so that it can power steam generators. The new Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, developed with the help of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will also be home to research and development for sustainable technologies."The cities of the past didn't have to think about issues like climate change and energy volatility," says Warren Karlenzig, chief executive of urban consultancy Common Current and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. But cities of the future can't afford to ignore such issues, says Karlenzig, especially given the ever-increasing population.Meanwhile, many of these brand new cities will be completed or significantly developed within the next five to 10 years, when their implications for the future will be better understood.Says Karlenzig: "By the end of this decade, we're really going to be seeing what these cities are like, how they operate and if they do make more sense than organically evolved cities."
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