The building serves as a childcare center, a recreation center, and an open air plaza that uses layers of materials to create a unique environment. Energy savings was one of the major considerations ...

WHEN former Gov. Jerry Brown first ran for mayor of Oakland in the 1998 election, he had a vision: "Oakland Ecopolis, A Plan for a Green Plan." Brown's gurus promised a city based on "the historical ...

Ecopolis: it’s not a real city, but it is a realistic vision of what our cities might be like by the year 2050. And it’s not pretty – the computer-generated megacity Ecopolis is dirty, polluted, ...

Ecopolis Plaza is also a demonstrative experience of economy of means applied to the field of sustainable construction, where efficiency usually means higher construction cost. The Ecopolis project ...

Lorna Howarth examines a growing movement in urban planning that moves beyond preventative sustainable development to 'regenerative' development, aiming to counter some of the destruction urbanisation ...

When climate change allows oceans to wash over the lands we once called home, you’re going to want to immigrate to one of the ecopolises that Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut created for his ...

A HUNDRED years ago, the largest city in the world was London, with a population of 6.5 million. Today it is dwarfed by Tokyo. With barely a quarter the population of London a century ago, Japan’s ...

One might not expect Iowa City, a midsize heartland town of 70,000, to be on the forefront of urban sustainability issues. But Iowa City has everything to lose if climate change isn’t addressed. In ...

Colombia is a country whose architecture continues to surprise us with projects that seek to improve the quality of life of its residents, which in turn tends to attract individuals to learn and ...

A group of developers, sustainability experts and other residents are putting their heads together to come up with ways that Iowa City can be more sustainable and energy-efficient. Ecopolis Iowa City ...