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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
It's official: Masdar won't be car-free (Update 5)
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Fundamental revisions to the Masdar City program, hinted at and leaked since spring, have been confirmed: Masdar City will be dedicated to developing and piloting sustainable technologies, but demonstrating what they can do on a city-wide scale will be left to others.
Here's what we know based on reports in a number of international news outlets.
Fundamental revisions to the Masdar City program, hinted at and leaked since spring, have been confirmed: Masdar City will be dedicated to developing and piloting sustainable technologies, but demonstrating what they can do on a city-wide scale will be left to others.
Here's what we know based on reports in a number of international news outlets.
- The overall deadline for completing all of Masdar City is now 2020-2025 instead of 2016. The cost will be roughly $18-20 billion instead of $22 billion.
BREAKING: Masdar won't be car-free
We're sifting breaking news about the contents of the Masdar program's review of the Masdar City plan. Full rundown later today, stay tuned.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Masdar City backs away from major goal
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Already forced to reevaluate its construction plans due to the bad global real estate market, the Masdar Initiative has again signaled it is giving up on the goal of Masdar City being car-free.
Although committed to an autumn 2010 launch of the pilot Masdar Institute segment of the innovative Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) peoplemover, future construction of a PRT network across the entire city is now in doubt.
Already forced to reevaluate its construction plans due to the bad global real estate market, the Masdar Initiative has again signaled it is giving up on the goal of Masdar City being car-free.
Although committed to an autumn 2010 launch of the pilot Masdar Institute segment of the innovative Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) peoplemover, future construction of a PRT network across the entire city is now in doubt.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Changes at Masdar - Some perspective
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It's certainly been disappointing to read reports about a scaling back on objectives by the Masdar sustainable energy effort:
But is it time to dismiss the whole undertaking as a failure? I think it's too early to tell. Here's what we know:
It's certainly been disappointing to read reports about a scaling back on objectives by the Masdar sustainable energy effort:
Clean transport not an easy move The National, UAE
Financial Woes Crimp Celebrated Middle East 'Green City' NY Times
Financial Woes Crimp Celebrated Middle East 'Green City' NY Times
But is it time to dismiss the whole undertaking as a failure? I think it's too early to tell. Here's what we know:
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