Tianjin Eco-City In China: The Future Of Urban Development?

**jamc204** · 01-15-2011 01:19 PM

Green building is becoming so prevalent these days that it may not be enough to erect individual eco buildings anymore - the newest trend is entire eco-cities. Expected to be up and running in 2020, Tianjin Eco-City is one of these real-life sustainable communities, spanning 30 square kilometers and showcasing the hottest energy-saving technologies. Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the city will have an advanced light rail transit system and varied eco-landscapes ranging from a sun-powered solarscape to a greenery-clad earthscape for its estimated 350,000 residents to enjoy.

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**nrdthxpr** · 01-16-2011 08:53 AM

Part of the problem is that most men are so greedy they refuse to recycle 100% of the waste and garbage their industries produce, or decently support their employees. They must dump cheaply and pay low wages or their profit margins will be too small to support their lust for wealth and power. Obviously, all industry and agriculture should be managed cooperatively, but that has always been dominated by corrupt government bureaucracies, as it was in the former USSR and Communist China.

So, can there be such a thing as cooperative capitalism or free enterprise regulated for environmental protection and a social safety net? Those seem like contradictions in terms, and certainly there would be extremely few businessmen willing to give up their personal agendas for becoming millionaires and possibly billionaires. But how much toxic business expansion and how much consume-and-trash shopping can this shrinking planet support before it collapses in ecocide and extinction? Nobody I know is willing to ask or answer that question. So, the answer is now being forced upon everyone as the storms and floods, droughts and wildfires and the growing toxic waste are getting so much worse that life itself is becoming an endangered species.

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