Should all cities be built like Masdar City?

No. All cities shouldn’t be built by any one person or company’s decision.

Did you watch the video?

I watched part of it, but honestly, I can’t watch every single video link given to me without a word of explanation. I do have a job to do, after all.

No, every city being unique and having there own pros and cons makes them visitable. And interesting.

I have a job to do too. I just happen to not be there right now. What I mean by “like Masdar City” is “as an eco-city” or, if you will, “with the same mindset as those behind Masdar City”.

Some eco-cities are very interesting. I saw a design for one that totally negated the use of a car, they had bike lanes about but simply was not designed for car usage, and was designed with groceries located nearby residential areas for ease of transportation, etc.

The problem with adopting just one city template is that there is no room for innovation or trying new things. As it stands now, any city is free to construct or promote itself as being eco-friendly, it is simply that very few cities are built from the ground up anymore.

In general, eco-cities will become more popular and built more if more people choose to relocate to them. This is the free market at work.

@dynamicduo You don’t have to be such a literalist. I didn’t mean “the exact same design/template as freakin’ Masdar freakin’ City”. I explained what I meant by that phrase.

And I didn’t know I was talking to a free market fundie. This has nothing to do with the free market. Free markets don’t exist in the real world.

Sure they don’t. You just keep believing that. I guess the American Dream doesn’t exist either then… well I knew that already.

For the record, how was I to ever know that you didn’t mean the exact words you wrote in your question? Do you expect I can read your mind and see into the intentions of what you really meant? You should have phrased your question better if you did not mean making identical copies of Masdar City. I am only being a literalist because that’s the only thing I can be on a site based on words!!

Glad to see you’ve totally discredited my thoughts based on your faulty assumption of who I am. It’s great to see one’s true colors come out. Have fun with your question.

What I mean by “like Masdar City” is “as an eco-city” or, if you will, “with the same mindset as those behind Masdar City”.

That’s how you should have known.

No, they shouldn’t.

I love San Francisco.

@qashqai I love San Francisco, too, but it’s ecologically unsustainable. It requires the importation of resources which destroys the world’s environment. Do you think, maybe, it can simply be transformed?

That is the scariest thing I have seen in a while. Absolutely not!!!!!! Welcome to Stepford.

@qashqai Nice to see you around again. It’s been a while.

@Marina LOL! What could possibly be scary about that?

@Marina Those guys at Lehman Brothers and AIG kept me busy for a while.

Nice to follow your advices again anyway, I personally missed them

@Jiminez I don’t like the idea of modular anything especially cities. There are ways to achieve green results without living in a hive.

I like the idea, let’s watch to see how grows or thrives, maybe a model for more.

I think it’s incredibly optimistic, and only workable in certain specific areas. I don’t think all cities should be made like it; however, I do think that new city construction should use a similar approach (as in, taking into consideration the location, population, function, and environmental conservation and use in future construction).

The human race is still getting its sea-legs in regards to how to handle being more sustainable. We’re still testing the bounds, so at this point, I don’t think we really have a tried-and-true framework to point to and say “here is a model that has worked in several different climes and locations with variable but consistent success,” so to speculate on if this yet-to-be-built model is the way to go isn’t a leap of faith I’m willing to take yet.

Plenty of people can create and present great ideas; the execution of it while still maintaining sustainable ideals is something else entirely.