Great Green Ideas May Flower in A Tale of Two Cities

摘要

Masdar is planned to house 100,000 and scheduled to be complete within 10 years. The second is Dongtan, Shanghai, which will start at 10,000 residents but which Chinese officials forecast will quadruple in size by 2020. For some skeptical observers, the plans to make these cities virtually carbon-free and energy-neutral are pie-in-the-sky.