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SCRIPT Masdar City

Masdar City is an initiative of the government in the United Arab Emirate, Abu Dhabi. In this project there won't be pollution in any sense, according to designers and professionals involved with it. The design is in charge of the British firm Foster & Partners, in a terrain near 17 kilometers from Abu Dhabi.

Initiated in 2006, the project is about to cost USD 22 billion and take some eight years to be built. The project aims to set up environmentally-friendly residential, commercial and industrial buildings, as well as educational and recreational. Taking into account the needs of its future inhabitants, which is estimated to be about 50.000 in six square kilometres.

The use of particular vehicles will be banned within the city, this is a way to avoid air pollution from combustion gases, so travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city. Masdar City will employ different kinds of renewable power sources, most of all solar energy, managed by power plants, and there will be other sources such as “wind farms” that will produce up to 20 megawatts and Geothermal power plants as well.

Many opinions are surrounding the project; some agree with the ecological design that creates a new model of neutral impact over the environment. On the other hand, there are some arguments about economics that are still in "stand by" and the third point is about functionality, in terms of transport and integration with the existing urban pattern.

Something interesting is that even though it derives almost all of its wealth from oil and gas, Abu Dhabi is making a splashy effort to wean itself from fossil fuels, in order to create a better harmony between humans and nature