The document discusses the concept of eco-green cities, focusing on their importance and methods for achieving sustainability through architecture, transportation, and urban planning. It outlines various strategies for minimizing environmental impact, including the use of renewable energy sources, urban farming, and improved public transportation, while also highlighting successful examples from around the world. The conclusion emphasizes the need for sustainable urban development to address contemporary challenges and ensure a viable future for generations to come.

1. Symposium ECO-GREEN CITIES

2. Team
Members
Class : X
Subject: Social Science
Task : Symposium

3. OBJECTIVE
To make everyone
understand the following
aspects:
• What is an eco-green city?
• Why is it important?
• How can we achieve this?

4. OBJECTIVE
• How to build it through
architecture, transportation and
strategic plans?
• Examples all around the world.

5. INTRODUCTION
• An eco-city also known as
sustainable city.
• Designed - environmental
impact, inhabited by people and
dedicated to

6. • minimize required inputs of
energy,
• water and food, and waste
output of heat, air pollution -
CO2, methane, and water
pollution.

9. • It should meet the needs of
the present without sacrificing
the ability of future
generations.

10. • The term "eco-city" - 1987
book, Eco-city Berkeley:
Building Cities for a Healthy
Future by Richard Register.

12. • A sustainable city should be
able to feed itself with minimal
reliance on the surrounding
countryside, and power itself
with renewable sources of
energy.

13. • To create the smallest
possible ecological footprint
• to produce the lowest quantity
of pollution possible,
• to efficiently use land
• compost used materials

14. • recycle it or convert waste-to-
energy.

15. Practical
Achievement

16. • Different agricultural systems -
agricultural plots within the city
– reduces distance.
• Renewable energy sources -
wind turbines, solar panels,
or bio-gas created
from sewage.

18. Methods to reduce air
conditioning - planting trees and
lightening surface
colors, natural ventilation
systems, an increase in water
features, and green spaces
equaling at least 20% of the

19. • Transportation planning-
Improved public transport and
an increase in pedestrianization
to reduce car emissions -
requires a radically different
approach to city planning.

20. • Optimal building density -
make public transport viable -
avoid the creation of urban
heat islands.
• Green roofs
• Zero-emission transport
• Zero-energy building

21. Green roofs in Hong Kong

22. Masdar

23. Design for a 180 meter tall
tower in Paris

24. • SUDS
• energy conservation
systems/devices
• Xeriscaping - garden and
landscape design for water
conservation

25. Singapore

26. ARCHITECTURE
• Eco industrial park
• Urban farming
• Walkable urbanism
• Individual buildings
• Urban infill

27. • Reduces environmental
impact
• Improves economic
performance

28. Industrial park in Michigan built by
Phoenix Designs that is made
almost entirely from recycled
materials.

29. This helps – as native trees, grasses,
and flowers, and the landscaping
design will act as climate shelter for
the facility.
They are using from one plant
to another
Steam connections from firms
provide heating for homes in
that area

30. • Using renewable energy
such as wind and solar
power.
• Creating more efficient
water flows.

32. • It is a process of growing and
distributing food, as well as
raising animals, in and around a
city.
• This method of food cultivation
saves energy in food
transportation and saves costs.

33. To make it successful - cities
must allot a common area for
community gardens or farms.

34. • As well as a common area for
a farmers market in which the
foodstuffs grown within the city
which can be sold to the
residents of the urban system.

36. • Walk able urbanism is a
development strategy in
opposition to suburban sprawl.
• It is known as the Charter
of New Urbanism.

37. • It advocates housing for a
diverse population, a full mix
of uses,
• Integrated civic and
commercial centers and walk
able streets
• Accessible open space
• Positive public space.

38. Welton

39. • LEED, or Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design, is an
internationally recognized green
building certification system.
• In order for a building to become
LEED, certified sustainability needs
to be prioritized in design
construction and use.

40. Its Recognition includes:
• Sustainable sites
• Water efficiency
• Energy & atmosphere
• Materials & resources
• Indoor environmental quality
• Locations & linkages
• Awareness & education
• Innovation in design

41. LEED

42. Abad Nucleus
Mall, Kochi

43. Taipei 101

44. Chicago

45. Sustainable transportation
attempts to reduce a use of
greenhouse emitting gases by:
• Eco friendly urban planning, low
environmental impact vehicles, to
create an urban center that has
greater environmental
responsibility and social equity.

46. Car free plan in Seine,
Paris

47. • Currently, transportation systems
account for nearly a quarter of the
world’s energy consumption and
carbon dioxide emission.
• So there are two major solution
for this problem to make a city
healthy and productive.

48. • This requires cities be built at
landmark density so that
destinations are reached.
• This reduces time in
transit, reduces fuel expenditure
& also opts for other alternative
transports like walk.

49. • Implementing sustainable
transportation must include access
to transportation by all levels of
society.
• For this we need to make public
transportation more accessible
and cheap.

50. • By this economic and social
conditions are developed.

51. • There is a private
organization in all over
the world in helping cities
by giving guidelines of
strategic planning.
• This org. is United Cities

52. A Nano City Plan

53. A closer look

54. • The advantages of urban strategic
planning include, that it places
environmental issues as the
priority for the sustainable
development of the city and serves
as a platform to develop concepts
and new models of housing,
energy, and mobility.

55. Urban Strategic
Planning

56. • The inequality in spatial
development and socio-economic
classes paired with recent
concerns of poverty and climate
change are new problems in
achieving global sustainable
cities.

57. • UN: Half of the world’s
population is concentrated in
cities that are set to rise to 60%
within a couple decades.

58. UCLG identified 13 global
challenges in establishing
sustainable cities:
• Demographic change
• Migration
• Globalization of the job
market.
• Poverty and unmet Millennium
Development Goals

59. • Segregation
• Spatial patterns and urban
growth, metropolisation and
the rise of urban regions
• More political power for local
authorizes
• New factors for developing a
city and providing services

60. • Decline in public funding for
development
• The environment and climate
change, new and accessible
building technologies

61. • Preparing for uncertainty and
limits of growth and global
communications and
partnerships.

62. Some Eco green
cities of the future

64. Australia
–City of Moreland. The
City of Moreland in
Melbourne's north has
programs for becoming
carbon neutral, one of
which is 'Zero Carbon
Moreland', amongst
other existing

65. Melbourne

66. City of Melbourne.
Over the past 10
years, various methods of
improving public transport
have been implemented; car
free zones and entire streets
have also been implemented.

67. Canada
• Calgary, Alberta was ranked as
the top eco-city in the world in
2010 for its, "excellent level of
service on waste removal,
sewage systems, and water
drinkability and availability,
coupled with relatively low air
pollution.”

68. Calgary

69. China
• China is working with investment
and technology supplied by
the Singapore government to build
an eco-city in the Coastal New
District of Tianjin City in northern
China, named the "Sino-
Singapore Tianjin Eco-city.”

70. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-
city

71. Rizhao mandates of solar
water heaters for
households, and has been
designated the
Environmental Model City
by China's SEPA (State
Environmental Protection
Administration)

73. India
• Manimekala is High-Tec Eco
city projected in Karaikal will
be considering an area of
5 km 2. It will be first of kind in
South India.

74. • Auroville
(Puducherry, Pondicherry) was
formed in 1968 with the intention
of realizing human unity, and is
now home to approximately
2,000 individuals from over 45
nations around the world.

75. City plan of
Auroville

76. • Its focus is its vibrant
community culture and its
expertise in renewable energy
systems, habitat
restoration, ecology
skills, mindfulness
practices, and holistic
education.

77. Auroville

78. Denmark
The industrial park
in Kalundborg is often cited as
a model for industrial ecology.

79. Industrial park in Kalundborg

80. Estonia
Oxford Residences for four
seasons in Estonia, in
development by the Oxford
Sustainable Group, winning a
prize for Sustainable Company
of the Year, is arguably one of
the most advanced sustainable
developments, not only trying

81. • already carbon negative and
considering factors such
as economic, financial, social
development of the
surroundings, environmental,
food, energy, government
policy, local
residents, education, in fact
more than most other

82. Germany
No other country has built more
eco-city projects than
Germany. Freiburg in
Breisgau is often referred to as
a green city. It is one of the few
cities with a Green mayor and
is known for its strong solar
energy industry. Vauban,
Freiburg is a sustainable model
district.

83. Freiburg

84. • All
houses are built to a low energy
consumption standard and the
whole district is designed to be car
free. Another green district in
Freiburg is Rieselfeld, where
houses generate more energy than
they consume.

85. • There
are several other green
sustainable city projects such
as Kronsberg in Hannover and
current developments around
Munich.

86. Kenya
Hacienda (Mombasa, Kenya) is
the largest development of eco-
friendly residential properties
in East Africa; construction is
currently ongoing, and it will
eventually be one of Africa’s
first self-sustaining estates.

88. Korea
Songdo IBD (International Business
District) is a planned city in
Korea, which has incorporated a
number of eco-friendly features.

89. Songdo IBD

90. Korea
• These include a central
park, irrigated with seawater, a
subway line, bicycle
lanes, rainwater catchment
systems, pneumatic waste
collection system - 75% of the
waste generated by the
construction of the city will be
recycled.

91. United Kingdom
• London Borough of Sutton is the first
One Planet Region in the United
Kingdom, with significant targets for
reducing the ecological footprint of
residents and creating the UK's
greenest borough.
• Middlesbrough is another One Planet
Region in the United Kingdom.

92. London Borough
of Sutton

93. • St David’s the smallest city in the
United Kingdom aims to be the first
carbon neutral city in the world.
• Leicester is the United Kingdom's
first environment city.

94. Leicester

95. United States
• Arcosanti, Arizona
• Treasure Island, San Francisco: is
another project that aims to create a
small eco city.
• Coyote Springs Nevada is the largest
planned city in the United States.

96. Coyote
Springs Nevada

97. • Babcock Ranch, Florida a
proposed solar-powered city.
• Douglas Ranch,
Buckeye Arizona
• Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque,
New Mexico
• Sonoma Mountain Village in
Rohnert Park, California

98. Conclusion
At the end of the twentieth
century mankind is involved in
unprecedented experiment.
Men are transforming
themselves to an urban
species.

99. Conclusion
• Cities are becoming our main
habitat. In the entry-first
century cities will decide the
destiny of man.

100. Conclusion
• The entry-first century cities,
with their functioning, will
determine the nature of the
biosphere. There will be no
sustainable world without
sustainable cities.

101. Conclusion
• Our cities should be so
organized that we feel that we
have a stake in the decisions
that shape our lives.

102. Conclusion
• We have to look at cities as a
whole in order to understand
the full meaning of sustainable
urban development.

103. Conclusion
• We also want to create a new
sense of connectedness in the
neighbourhood, to People
across the world, and also to
future generations.