Masdar City

Video Title :	Masdar City
Description :	Masdar is a planned city in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is an initiative by the Government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster + Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, beside Abu Dhabi International Airport. The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC). Initiated in 2006, the project is projected to cost US$22 billion and take some eight years to build, with the first phase scheduled to be complete and habitable in 2009. The city will cover 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) on a site 6.4 km2 (2.5 sq mi) in size and will be home to 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, primarily commercial and manufacturing facilities specialising in environmentally-friendly products, and an expected 40,000 workers will commute to the city daily. It will also be the location of a university, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), which will be assisted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Automobiles will be banned within the city; travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city. The city will be walled, to keep out the hot desert wind. The lack of cars will allow for narrow, shaded streets that will also funnel breezes from one side of the city to the other.Masdar City will be the latest of a small number of highly planned, specialized, research and technology-intensive municipalities that incorporate a living environment, similar to Novosibirsk, Russia or Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Notable partners in the project through its Clean Tech Fund include General Electric, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce, Total S.A., Mitsui and Fiat. Construction of the first phase of the project is being managed by CH2M HILL and design of the central Masdar headquarters building has been awarded to Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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Keywords, Tags :	Masdar, City, Abu, Dhabi, Foster, Partners, zero-carbon, zero-waste, ecology
Video Length :	8 : 16

Perfect control over the population. Mind you that this would be a city for the rich and powerful.. for the every day citizen the "smart-city" would more resemble to a prison... welcome to NWO

my dad works for masdar and he is like the 3rd most important person ther...he is not the project manager of masdar city but i am pretty sure that we r goin to live ther... does anybody know why this is so special??? because its the first CO2 free city!!!

Oh Yes ... imagine Imagine this coulds also be a new Babylon imagine there are only the richest of the rich allowed to be. Imagine the costs of this Project Imagine they can control the People in this Place better . and so on ... This is New World Order - Global Governence Bullshit.

I prefer to live in Berlin City, forget Masdar....

this is completely new world order. such cities won't have any culture or history

Perfect city, perfect technology... perfect control over the people. NO to this insane idea!!

Hope this will be the future of the earth.

Come On, THAT CITY IS A BEAUTIFULL PROYECT, THE FUTURE OF HUMANS OPEN YOUR MIND

Precisamos de um projeto que visa o bem estar de todos sem deixar ninguem para traz, precisamos de uma solução a nivel Global, Pesquisem sobre o projeto Vênus vamos trabalhar para tornar o Mundo um Lugar melhor de verdade, para todos.

to bad u have to be rich as shit to live there

Not that it's biased or anything lol

People this City will not be perfect, and hey who nows how long us GREEDY Top of the food chain Homo sapiens have left on this planet, but at least it's a change from "The Norm". Think back to the ancient Egyptians, they were the ones who took a risk, and constructed magnificent New Cities. The Men and Women from UAE are just following in the foot steps of their arabian forbears, but in a 21st century sort of way. Nothing wrong with that as I can see.... The world will be better for it.

Dont be fooled by the graphics green land in this video, lol. it NEVER looks like they plan it to look. I live in Abu Dhabi worked in Dubai Media city. Media city was supposed to look like this, now if u look at it, its just large patches of dry sand and desert, where the "plants trees" were SUPPOSED to be, lol. This is just another bull shit propaganda video. The water to grow those plants evaporate in minutes! Would take millions of liters of water a day just to keep them alive.

you're crazy! Gay people are illegal here...its hell for them. Trust me..i know. i live here and cant wait to ge the fuck out. I live in Abu Dhabi.

John, why should you need money in sustainable city? For increasing crime rate? For making profit by war? Sure it looks like a city of the venus project but at least it is no... But all in all we can proud that mankind is able to think about a life without pollution..may the next step is to think about a life without money :)

There is no such a thing as ZERO carbon. Fix this term.

Hmm...not sure then, but I saw a video once, and read an article that said Masdar city was suppose to be the crown jewel of efficiency and Dubai itself(since it was suppose to be located right next to the Dubai airport). I might be wrong, my information is probably outdated or I misinterpreted, so thanks for the clear up Christian.

Masdar city is located in Abu Dhabi not Dubai. Abu Dhbai is the capital of the UAE, Dubai is only a small emirate to the north of Abu Dhabi

True point, in that case I think Masdar city/Dubai is probably going to be the best for retirees/couples or just to get away and go on vacation...or for gay people too! lol

i think everyone undestands zeitgeist, and everyone wants it, the reason im talking about the 70 000 people is not to build this city,... its for maintaining it.. they say on the vide " 70 000 worker places " and " commercial offices " .. so its nothing new.. its just a new city build today ... the venus project is a little bit differente.. its a city like that one... but it doesnt require labour or money to operate.. VP is a "Sustainable" city.. because it "Sustains" itself.

The only problem I have with it is that there won't be many women there. I'm american and I like it here, if you go to dubai you better hope you are married because men outnumber women there by a lot. this might be one of the reasons arab men hold each others hands in the street when walking. Basically until they evolve to accept slutty women and are more open about sex there is not a chance I will be going there.

it doesn't take 70,000 people to build that city, we have machines you know also they would bring out trailers to live in, I can tell you're a zeitgeister because you can't fathom this being built in a monetary system. It can be built with money and FOR profit. It would be great if we could have a utopia with no money and sharing resources but it has to be done in a monetary system first and people's ideologies about money will change.

yes and where would the 70 000 workers live ? .. inside the city ? guess not.. still monetary system propaganda.. we have to make this with no money.

Love the city!! haha And who cares if it's populated by white(caucasians) or arabians!!! And incase you guys haven't noticed...there's a-lot of white/light skinned arabians that look caucasian(doesn't mean they are though)! In short, grow up and who cares.

lugar perfeito. mas o custo deverá ser alto para morrar numa cidade assim. por mim vou morar hoje mesmo lá, ajudar a contruir e tudo. ruim mesmo vai ser falar o idioma. alguem me contrata pro setor de esportes. hehe.