Tianjin Eco-City Masterplan to be launched next week
April 18th, 2008 | by admin |COULD Singapore spark the green revolution in China, a country recently named in a University of California report as the world’s “biggest polluter”?This possibility is being raised as the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City — the first collaboration of its kind between Singapore and Beijing since the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in 1994 — takes off.
Using the lessons from the Housing and Development Board’s 48 years of experience, the planners have opted for a practical approach in the quest to convert the wetlands and rivers of the site — 150 km from Beijing — into a city that is the model of sustainable development.
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The best ideas of both countries will go into developing the 30-sq-km site into a living space for 350,000 residents in 10 to 15 years’ time, with schools, housing areas, commercial and industrial services.
Read more @ the SOURCE: TODAYonline – This eco-city to show the way By Zul Othman
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