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SCHOOL OFPLANNING ANDARCHITECTURE

2010

ECO CITY-DONGTON,CHINA

A case Study of Dongton

Shashikant Nishant Sharma

N E W D E L H I



Eco City-Dongton,China Sustainability means meeting our community¶s present needs while preserving our historic character andensuring the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves balancing and integratingenvironmental, economic, health and social issues so as to maximize the quality of life for all. Sustainable

development means attaining a balance between environmental protection and human economicdevelopment and between the present and future needs. It means equity in development and sectoral actionsacross space and time. It requires an integration of economic, social and environmental approaches towards development.Sustainable urban development refers to attaining social equity and environmental protection in urbanizationwhile minimizing the costs of urbanization.

What is Eco City?´It is an urban center that is moving towards controlled and sustainable patterns of consumptionand growth.µ

What is Eco -City concept?

It means reducing the Ecological Footprintwhile simultaneously improving the Quality of Life²forour and future Generations -within the Capacity Limits of the City



The scientific and technological objective of the ECO-City project is to establish the technological basis and todemonstrate innovative integrated energy concepts in the supply and demand side.

The focus of the Eco-city Project is:

1. To improve environment through conservation of natural resources, management of sewerage, drainage andsolid waste; reduction of air and water pollution; recycling of wastes and creation of job opportunities for the urbanpoor:

2. To improve visual qualities through urban design of selected complexes and landscaping of parks and openspaces and providing green belts;

3. To improve traffic management by providing efficient circulation, parking, pedestrian system that cater to theresidents as well as the visitors to the town;

4. To build capacities of the stakeholders to prepare and implement projects;

5. To monitor the projects using specific environmental indicators;

6. To document the project impact;

7. To improve urban management and for this purpose, promote networking of participating cities with similarcities in Europe; and

8. To improve tourism and job opportunities.



vision and leadership

³China¶s current development is ecologicallyunsustainable, and the damage will not bereversible once higher GDP has been achieved´

Zhenhua Xie, Minister of State Environmental Protection Agency



THE ECO-CITY- DONGTON

The eco-city is an umbrella metaphor that encompasses a wide range of urban-ecological proposals thataim to achieve urban sustainability. These approaches propose a wide range of environmental, social, and

institutional policies that are directed to managing urban spaces to achieve sustainability.

Dongton promotes the ecological agenda and emphasizes environmental management through a set of institutional and policy tools. The distinctive concepts of the eco-city are greening and passive solardesign. In terms of density and other concepts, the eco-city might be conceived as a formless city or anecoamorphous city. There are some approaches that emphasize the passive solar design, such as theEcovillage, Solar Village.

It is remarkable that the core of many approaches is the management of the Dongton city, rather than thesuggesting of any specific urban form; it is believed that not the physical shape of the Dongton city and its

built environment that is important; it is how the urban society is organized and managed that countsmost.

Therefore, the Dongton city is managed to achieve sustainability through different land use,environmental, institutional, social, and economic policies In practice, many local governments, planningconsultants, landscape architects, and so on are grappling much more specifically with aspects of ecological, pedestrian oriented, or otherwise sustainable urban form.



Submitted by :- Shashikant N ishant Sharma

B.Pl anning

Schoo l of Planning and Architecture

New De lhi Emai l: sns .sahi l@ gmai l.com

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