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	Building the world's cleanest city In a Persian Gulf desert, a U.S. engineering firm drives clean tech forward. By Marc Gunther, senior writer (Fortune) -- Halfway around the world, a zero-carbon, zero-waste, automobile-free city known as Masdar is rising from a 2.3-square mile plot of desert in Abu Dhabi. If all goes according to plan, Masdar - financed with $15 billion in oil money - will become a showcase for smart urban planning, green building, renewable energy, sustainable materials and advanced recycling. "There is nothing like it in the world," says Masdar CEO Sultan Al Jaber, without exaggeration. "Masdar has a simple promise - to be the world's center for future energy solutions." Should this grand experiment work, Abu Dhabi will profit from the clean energy economy of tomorrow, just as it profits from $100-a-barrel oil today. To get from here to there, Abu Dhabi will tap into the vision of London architects Foster and Partners and the skills of a big U.S. engineering firm called CH2M Hill. Last week, I visited CH2M Hill's headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, a Denver suburb, to learn more about the project, and about the company that's been hired to make it real. Masdar "is about a journey to zero carbon, zero waste," says Jim Otta, a senior executive with CH2M Hill. "It's like the U.S. on its quest to the moon. Nobody quite knew how to get to the moon when Kennedy announced the goal. Yet a decade later, people were walking on the moon."

	The Open Architecture Network is the brainchild of Architecture for Humanity and the designers who volunteer with us and through our local chapters. It grew out of our collective frustration in sharing ideas and trying to work together to address shelter needs after disaster, in informal settlements and in our own communities. The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.
	Samenwerking Urban Design & BouwRAI - De vakbeurs voor de openbare ruimte, Urban Design, en de vakbeurs voor woningbouw en wijkontwikkeling, BouwRAI gaan elkaar versterken. Vanaf 2010 vinden de evenementen gelijktijdig plaats. Op de komende BouwRAI 2008 komt al een voorproefje van de nieuwe combinatie met een speciaal paviljoen getiteld ‘Urban Design Select’. Bedrijven tonen hier hun visies en producten voor de inrichting van de directe woonomgeving. Met deze nieuwe opzet brengt BouwRAI een completer aanbod op het gebied van de ontwikkeling van woningbouwprojecten. BouwRAI 2008 met Urban Design Select vindt plaats van dinsdag 1 tot en met donderdag 3 april 2008 in Amsterdam RAI
	Planetizen: The Planning & Development Network Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more. Planetizen is read by a diverse array of people interested in the built and natural environments, and their interaction. Planetizen's audience includes professional urban planners, developers, architects, policy makers, educators, economists, civic enthusiasts and others from across the United States and around the world.
	The Cities for Climate Protection™(CCP) Campaign assists cities to adopt policies and implement quantifiable measures to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and enhance urban livability and sustainability. More than 800 local governments participate in the CCP, integrating climate change mitigation into their decision-making processes. ICLEI runs this highly successful and widely recognized campaign either regionally or nationally in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the United States.
	Philadelphia LANDvisions began in May 2005 with a series of community meetings. A broad range of Philadelphia's residents and stakeholders engaged in a series of community envisioning sessions that looked at natural land and water resources at the regional scale as well as neighborhood structure at the local scale. Community participants learned from experts about the city's ecological foundation—its hydrology and geology, and studied maps of Philadelphia's extensive vacant lands, natural resources, and built environment.
	Citysearch is a leading local search service, providing the most up-to-date information on businesses, from restaurants and retail, to travel and professional services. Citysearch empowers users to make informed decisions about where to spend their time and money by delivering trusted content, including more than 500,000 editorial profiles and user reviews of local businesses.
	Inner City Press, headquartered in the South Bronx of New York City, engages in investigations and journalism regarding human rights, transparency, corporate accountability, community reinvestment, predatory lending, environmental justice, fair housing, social exclusion and related topics. Inner City Press covers (and where applicable is accredited media at) the United Nations, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, banking and insurance regulatory agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, and various courts.
	The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. ICIC’s mission is to promote economic prosperity in America’s inner cities through private sector engagement that leads to jobs, income and wealth creation for local residents. ICIC brings together business and civic leaders to drive innovation and action, transform thinking and accelerate inner city business growth and investment.
	Century City embraces the 24 by 365 global lifestyle When the sun sets, life in the city slows down–or does it? Not at Century City. The progressive township development in the heart of “MoMa,” or “Modern Makati” will take urban living to an exhilarating turn through the 24 by 365 dynamic that it shall espouse. A 4.8-hectare project of the visionary real estate developer Century Properties that is set to rise on the former site of the International School, Century City will power a global lifestyle in which work, live and play activities run throughout the day and into the night, and with most services, shops and attractions open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—truly a city that never sleeps. The development will feature an integrated environment with the following components: Makati’s first IT Park that will cater to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) locators and high-profile companies; The Gramercy Residences—the first residential tower in the development touted as the only fully-furnished, fully-serviced, hyper-amenitized luxury condo in the Philippines; the Entertainment and Lifestyle Center with world-famous restaurants, bars, cafes, designer boutiques and cinemas; and other outdoor attractions including one-of-a-kind “virtual landscapes.”