Monday, May 11, 2009

Cool Cities

Cool Cities
Now days, many cities in the world are modern and have basics needs to live, however, these cities consume more energy that produce more CO2 and heat. Therefore, the developers found out a basic strategy to deal with heat and CO2 by building Cool Cities. These cities have the ability to reduce heat and CO2 to the zero level. However, Cool cities are not practical for two main reasons. This essay will describe my research on cool cities and my recommendation.

The first reason is the size of the world population. For example, Masdar City is designed to be free from cars and any other polluting machines, but this city will serve only 50,000 citizens (Kawach). The world population rate is increasing year after another and by 2050 the rate will be approximately 10 billion. Therefore, we need many cool cities in each county which is impossible.

Another reason is the cost of building this type of city. Masdar City cost around $ 22 billion. Many countries around the world are poor and to have this type of city in them would be very impossible. This huge amount of many can be used to reduce CO2 level by developing the old factories and replace them with new one. Furthermore, this amount of budget can help to find many projects which have to be available and that are including poor countries.

In conclusion, having cool cities is a brilliant idea; however, most people can’t live in it. Therefore, I recommend that we should change our lifestyle and I believe that this is the solution for global warming.


Bibliography

BibliographyBuilding a green dream. 23 Apr. 2009 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080506/BUSINESS/203459638.Cool Cities. 23 Apr. 2009 .Cool ideas to beat the heat. 23 May 2009 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080505/BUSINESS/69195690.Green plans for Abu Dhabi. 23 Apr. 2009 http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/level2/174/174projectlinks/adcity.flv.Masdar’s green dream is not for all. 23 Apr. 2009 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080424/BUSINESS/919451504.

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