Week 10: Eco Cities

Eco-Cities

Eco-cities are a way for humans and the environment to co-exist as one. It all begins with the founding of Urban Ecology that was founded in 1975 by architects who believed that cities and environment should be able to co-exist. The evolution of Urban ecology since then has provided solutions for better urban planning of cities, transport, and ways to create a more efficient city. In the lecture, Susan explored some of these concepts and how we struggle to turn them into reality. Eco-cities are a major change in design, compared to designing with respects to power or users. These cities provide many perks for the world and it's users:  it stimulates economic growth, provides an environment that reduces poverty, it organizes the cities in a way that increases efficiency and due to the merging with environment, it reduces chemical gas releases which improves health.

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