ARE COOL CITIES PRACTICAL?

The 20th century cities contribute to global warming by increasing in energy consumptions, traffic delay and rising population. That’s why the idea of cool cities like masdar city created to reduce the emission of CO2. In cool cities they use new technology and renewable energy in buildings and transportation .However I disagree with the idea that cool cities are practical because of some main reasons.

The first reason is that there are too many people live in the earth.However, cool cities cannot hold many people.For example masadar city designed for only 47500 populations . There are about 6,778,763,974 populations in the earth. That’s mean we need about 142710 cool city to make all the people live in cool cities. Moreover, the good places are already taken to make cities so it will be very difficult to find suitable places to build them. It is impossible to destroy the old cities to build cool cities.(world population)

The second main reason is the huge cost of making a cool city. US$20 Billion are paid to make masdar city. That’s why many countries can’t afford that budget . However, one cool city in each country is not enough for all people who live there. That's why for some countries it will be impossible to do it.(masdar website).

In conclusion, Cool cities are very nice idea but it is not practical because, of the big population in the earth and the cost of it.I think cool cities is waste of time and money because one cool city will not effect that much.


Bibliography.

Welcome to MASDAR. 09 May 2009 http://www.masdaruae.com/.

"World Population." Ibiblio in space. 09 May 2009 http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop.