Millennium City: Different Shades of Green

摘要

One hundred square kilometers of prime real estate on the Atlantic coast, not too far from cosmopolitan Accra in Ghanais a place dedicated to what is reputably Africa’s first planned “green” sustainable city, better known as the “MillenniumCity.” Cities such as Ile-Ife, in Nigeria, Djenne in Mali, and Mogadishu in Somalia are reputed to have been inhabitedcontinuously for the past several centuries; therefore it is doubtful that whatever becomes of the new Millennium City, itcannot possibly be the first African city to be “sustainable,” to optimize “recycling,” or to depend on “renewable” energysources. In fact these features of the new green revolution and sustainable development may have been invented inAfrican villages where self-sufficiency and repeated utilization of locally available resources have not been optional.