China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis

Just when I get down about China and environmental impact, there comes a ray of hope: "Dongtan's master plan — hundreds of pages of maps, schematics, and data — has almost nothing to say about architectural style. Instead, it outlines the world's first green city, every block engineered in response to China's environmental crisis. It's like the source code for an urban operating system. 'We're not focused on the form,' Gutierrez explains. 'We're focused on the performance of the form.' He and his team imagine a city powered by local, renewable energy, with superefficient buildings clustered in dense, walkable neighborhoods; a recycling scheme that repurposes 90 percent of all waste; a network of high tech organic farms; and a ban on any vehicle that emits CO2."
Wired Magazine: Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis: