World’s largest sustainable city developed in China
Sun May 6, 2012 1:39PM GMT
Tianjin eco-city in China
The world's largest sustainable city, extending about 30 square kilometers, with urban living conditions has been developed in South Asian country of China.
Rising from wastelands in China, the globe's biggest eco-city of Tianjin is located 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast from Beijing that means less than an hour on the new high-speed train line.
The city, designed to be around half the size of Manhattan Island in the United States, is slated to be enriched by the hottest energy-saving technologies.
Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the city is planned to have an advanced light rail transit system and varied eco-landscapes ranging from a sun-powered solarscape to a greenery-clad earthscape for its estimated 350,000 residents.
A sustainable city or eco-city is a preplanned city to produce their own energy, food and water in a way that does not cause detriment to the world in forms such as waste, water pollution or damage to the air.
Richard Register first established the term 'ecocity' in his book, Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future (1987).
Treasure Island and Arcosanti in the United States, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Clonburris in Ireland are some of the renowned eco-cities in the world.