Cool Cities

Nowadays buildings and transportations are contributed the increasing of CO2. Cool cities designed to reduce the CO2 and especially in buildings and transportations. In this essay I am going to explain why cities like Masdar are not practical for all.

The population is the first reason of why cool cities are not practical. If we estimate the number of the population nowadays reached 6.7 billion (wikipedia) which is really a huge number, but the question is how much will it reach in 2050? Unfortunately, it will reach to about 9.5 billion (census.gov). How will the government provide these types of cities for all people, if city like Masdar can carry about 50,000 people (Masdar’s). It is really ridicules, that’s why it is difficult to say most of the people will live in the cool city.

Another aspect of my point of view is that poor countries, such as Africa and some countries in Asia cannot afford money to achieve such project for it need lots of money. If so, they will afford it to help their refugees and heal their sickness first. Yet, they need hundred years more to go green.

How about people’s lifestyle? Although the facilities are provided, yet there are some difficulties to deal with. Not everyone can live in this type of city unless he is environmentally friendly (Masdar’s). It is also difficult for people who live in hot countries use the bike and walk instead of using their own car, because of the heat which you can feel it even if you are under the shade.

In Conclusion, I believe that not everyone will live in cities like Masdar even if we reach the year 2050. In my opinion, although this project will reduce the CO2 and save the earth, yet I’m not convinced that all people will accept to live in.

Bibliography

"Masdar?s green dream is not for all- The National Newspaper." The National. 24 Apr. 2008. 5 May 2009 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080424/BUSINESS/919451504.

U.S.Census Bureau. International Data Base (IDB). 5 May 2009 http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.html.

"World population." Wikipedia. 5 May 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population.