EcoDistrict Urban Strategy

Description

Tino Rizzo:

"Creating Sustainable Urbanism calls for the application of a holistic organizing concept such as “EcoDistricts” to inform and direct growth that optimizes synergies in forming neighborhoods as living communities with an environmentally sustainable urban agenda. An EcoDistrict is a geographically defined area such as a remote village, urban neighborhood, institutional campus, employment district, city, or sub-region within which system flows of energy, nutrients, resources, information, financial capital, and cultural resources are focused locally, energized by their coordinated integration, and responsive to microclimatic conditions. EcoDistricts are a planning approach that calls for a more environmentally sustainable, low carbon city with next-generation infrastructure, culture and climate-sensitive public space, and high-performance buildings."

More Information

• Towards an EcoDistricts Strategy for Sustainable Urbanism in the Arab Gulf Region

Greater Doha as a Case Study, http://dohaecodistricts.blogspot.com/