Eco-city 2020
A Russian company has unveiled plans to build a gigantic domed city in an abandoned diamond mine in Siberia. (Pics)
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Eco-city 2020
A Russian company has unveiled plans to build a gigantic domed city in an abandoned diamond mine in Siberia. (Pics)
Continue reading… “100,000 Person Domed City Could be Built in Siberian Diamond Mine”
Peter Head of the British design firm Arup. Head leads the 100-person team
behind the green city of Dongtan, set to be completed by 2050.
Dongtan is a new city planned for the island of Chongming, near Shanghai. The city should be open, with accommodation for 50,000, by the time the Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai. By 2040, the city is slated to be one-third the size of Manhattan. Dongtan is the first of up to four slated “eco-cities” to be designed and built in China by Arup, a British company. (Pics and Video after the jump)
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