Tianjin Eco-City In China Designed By Surbana Urban Planning Group Set To Be Completed In 2020
By Shella Marie Gutierrez on Jan 15, 2011 in Amazing, Asia, Business, Headlines, Technology, World • 3 comments |
The 30 square kilometer Eco-City in Tianjin, China is set to be completed in 2020. The Eco-project was designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group which will showcase the hottest new energy-saving technologies like wind and solar power, rainwater recycling and waste-water treatment/desalination of sea water.
International news sites reported that the Eco-City is expected to house 350,000 residents in Tianjin. The city was said to be divided in seven sectors which differ in terms of landscaping and programmatic offerings. A Lifescape, an Eco-Valley, a Solarscape, an Urbanscape, a Windscape, an Earthscape and Eco-Corridors.
Tianjin Eco-City is just a 10-minute drive from the business parks at the Tianjin Economic-Development Area. It was situated 150km from the Chinese capital of Beijing and 45km from Tianjin City.
The Solarscape will be the civic center. Located on the waterfront, the area will feature a floating stage for public events. Image Credit: Surbana Urban Planning Group
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It’s still dirty, filthy China.
China can keep attempting these sort of feats, but at the end of the day, it’s a “made in China” kind of deal. Cheap quality and lots of short cuts.
Well…..this city doesn’t just looks awesomely cool but it also sounds very eco-friendly and whatnot. I can’t believe many other countries, especially the western Countries of North and South America, have started something like this. All the technology advances and whatnot seem to come mostly from countries of the East like China, Japan, India, Korea. Other countries seriously need to get on board. Our world can only sustain itself so much without further radical changes to our lifestyles.
Our future advances needs to be now. I hate governments and corporations always fighting to which stalles lots of technology creations.
China is doing this because they have a unique opportunity: they don’t have suburbs yet to house the millions of rural people that are migrating to the cities. So, they can jump over that traditional step and create urban areas that are planned from day 1 to provide housing, industry, and recreation. In the U.S. and Western countries, the suburbs are already there and no one has figured out how to just obliterate them and start over. And actually, ‘burbs can work just fine when the jobs are accessible. Telecommuting, e-commerce, light rail, job sharing, these are all things that make jobs accessible 21st-century-style.
By the way,China will house “350,000 by the year 2020″ in Eco-City. That will be about 0.019% of their population…not exactly a grand scale of achievement. Build another 5000 Eco-Cities and then they’ve really done something! Check out Reston, Virginia – built about 45 years ago. THAT was cutting-edge.