Abstract
Developing countries and emerging economies have been active in creating ecological cities. An analysis of some Asian cases will be presented to show that the reasons to create a new neighbourhood or to introduce a different approach to urban planning are mainly environmental considerations. Since the 1990s a number of cities have created new neighbourhoods taking environmental factors into consideration. More recently Shanghai announced plans to build the city of the future on an island at the mouth of China’s Yangtze River, in the same way Singapore has planned new ecological neighbourhoods. These examples and one from the Netherlands (Rotterdam) will be reviewed to answer three questions like what would the ecological city of the future look like and what can we learn from these experiences for the ecological city of the future? Pollution, solid waste and wastewater problems, all aggravated by climate change require a different approach to urban management to build the ecological city of the future!
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van Dijk, M.P. (2011). Three Ecological Cities, Examples of Different Approaches in Asia and Europe. In: Wong, TC., Yuen, B. (eds) Eco-city Planning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0383-4_3
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