Dongtan, China's Flagship Eco-City

摘要

There is no doubt that the concept of the eco-city has now come to maturity: the term 'eco-city' was first coined in print some 20 years ago by the environmental activist Richard Register in his book Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future, where he provided an inspirational low-tech guide for making cities ecological.1 Plans for eco-cities are now proliferating across the world: with Foster + Partners spearheading a design for Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, proposals for eco-cities in the UK and the rest of Europe in the pipeline, and 20 being planned across China alone. None, though, has captured the international media's interest as much as Dongtan.