Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 - 8:30PM The Lot, West Hollywood
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Chongming Island, a marshy grassland near Shanghai, will soon be home to a scratch-built metropolis of half a million people called Dongtan. Envisioned by the cutting-edge "integrated urbanism" division of one of the world's largest and most innovative engineering firms - Arup - Dongtan will be the world's first green city designed entirely from scratch for total environmental efficiency.
In 2010 it will be connected to Shanghai via a bridge-and-tunnel system and subway extension. The Arup team that designed it, led by urban design pioneer Peter Head, wrote their own "integrated resource modeling" software to optimize everything from energy generation and waste flow to public transit and building placements. They then applied existing technologies in innovative ways, creating organic underground "plant factories", a recycling scheme that repurposes 90% of waste, and of course a ban on any vehicles that emit carbon dioxide. It is simply a marvel of human engineering an d a case study for the bright green city of tomorrow. Join us for a mind-blowing presentation and discussion with Peter Head and Gary Lawrence, Arup's Head of Global Policy. Peter is based in London; Gary is based in Seattle; and both will be flying in exclusively for this event.
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Read Wired Magazine's article Pop-Up Cities: China Builds A Bright Green Metropolis.