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	<title>Comments on: Zero-carbon city by Foster + Partners</title>
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		<title>By: mawn</title>
		<link>http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/08/abu-dhabi-eco-city-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-316603</link>
		<dc:creator>mawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Maliheh

there are ways to survive without air conditionning. This must first start by the adaptation of our so-called needs. Bedouins have survived just fine, and so have we before twenty-four-hour-running centralized air-conditionning systems invaded our offices, homes and malls. 
Foster has been experimenting with double-skin facades and other similar low-consumption, low-emission technologies in order to reduce dependance on air conditionning. 
So I suggest you take a look around you and see that if the change doesn&#039;t start in our mentalities and standards, and unless we become open to new alternative lifestyles,  we will drown in our own shit (pardon my french).


ps. I know what heat is, I gew up in Kuwait, and I still think something like this can be made possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Maliheh</p>
<p>there are ways to survive without air conditionning. This must first start by the adaptation of our so-called needs. Bedouins have survived just fine, and so have we before twenty-four-hour-running centralized air-conditionning systems invaded our offices, homes and malls.<br />
Foster has been experimenting with double-skin facades and other similar low-consumption, low-emission technologies in order to reduce dependance on air conditionning.<br />
So I suggest you take a look around you and see that if the change doesn&#8217;t start in our mentalities and standards, and unless we become open to new alternative lifestyles,  we will drown in our own shit (pardon my french).</p>
<p>ps. I know what heat is, I gew up in Kuwait, and I still think something like this can be made possible.</p>
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		<title>By: DK</title>
		<link>http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/08/abu-dhabi-eco-city-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-312638</link>
		<dc:creator>DK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This looks fascinating- applause + curiosity</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This looks fascinating- applause + curiosity</p>
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		<title>By: sammydavisaskicker</title>
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		<dc:creator>sammydavisaskicker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey where is all that co2 intensive concrete made? where do they get the copper? thats not zero carbon. of course the green movement has been hijacked to market large energy and design-construction firms rather than to reduce POLLUTION. just because you use a couple solar panels for five or so years (their real lifespan) you are not solving the pollution problem. now you know why I am a laid off engineer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey where is all that co2 intensive concrete made? where do they get the copper? thats not zero carbon. of course the green movement has been hijacked to market large energy and design-construction firms rather than to reduce POLLUTION. just because you use a couple solar panels for five or so years (their real lifespan) you are not solving the pollution problem. now you know why I am a laid off engineer.</p>
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		<title>By: Maliheh</title>
		<link>http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/08/abu-dhabi-eco-city-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-84395</link>
		<dc:creator>Maliheh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody can live in any part of the UAE without airconditioning system, I thinck Foster should visit UAE in summer and he&#039;ll never ever decide to do such a fake project!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody can live in any part of the UAE without airconditioning system, I thinck Foster should visit UAE in summer and he&#8217;ll never ever decide to do such a fake project!!!</p>
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		<title>By: D Dhary</title>
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		<dc:creator>D Dhary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The people in UAE want to fight (with other) the global warming in a way or another.
The project (in their eyes) would help to reduce the CO2 emissions.
If someone has a good and useful ideas, I strongly advice him to speak up, there are a lot of listening ears in UAE.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The people in UAE want to fight (with other) the global warming in a way or another.<br />
The project (in their eyes) would help to reduce the CO2 emissions.<br />
If someone has a good and useful ideas, I strongly advice him to speak up, there are a lot of listening ears in UAE.</p>
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		<title>By: Rabih Gorayeb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rabih Gorayeb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What are the external walls for? protection? isolation? growth control? an extremely-gated community? I find them a bit weird...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are the external walls for? protection? isolation? growth control? an extremely-gated community? I find them a bit weird&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
		<link>http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/08/abu-dhabi-eco-city-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-40778</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hundreds of years ago the arabs would have build these vernacular citiies in a time honoured way, why do they now need a British Architect, good earner Norman!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of years ago the arabs would have build these vernacular citiies in a time honoured way, why do they now need a British Architect, good earner Norman!</p>
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		<title>By: Bakada</title>
		<link>http://www.dezeen.com/2007/05/08/abu-dhabi-eco-city-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-25002</link>
		<dc:creator>Bakada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I applaud the idea of a planned &quot;walled&quot; city in a hostile environment.  Nothing turns my stomach more than driving thru a country-side that has been decimated to build 5,000 sqft McMansions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I applaud the idea of a planned &#8220;walled&#8221; city in a hostile environment.  Nothing turns my stomach more than driving thru a country-side that has been decimated to build 5,000 sqft McMansions.</p>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>where will the energy come from to build this development?????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>where will the energy come from to build this development?????</p>
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		<title>By: Jack de Valpine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack de Valpine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In brief follow-up to Roni van der Veen&#039;s comments. Where does Visarc enter into this, I am quite sure that we did not produce these renderings...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In brief follow-up to Roni van der Veen&#8217;s comments. Where does Visarc enter into this, I am quite sure that we did not produce these renderings&#8230;</p>
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