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Vegas on steroids: meet Dubai

September 23, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: carbonfootprint, desert, dubai, masdar, smartgrowth, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, water, ziggurat

For me, a post about Dubai (the amazing pace of construction shown above) must begin with some thoughts about Las Vegas and about the king of rock'n'roll, who performed in that city often and whose impersonators there remain legion. ...continued→

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A "megaresort" in the desert, dressed up as "downtown." Really.

December 17, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:: desert, downtown, mesaarizona, mesaprovinggrounds, newurbanism, resort, sprawl, towncenter

Does this look to you like an environmentally sustainable place to put a "destination resort, retail, and convention center core"? Me neither. How about a golf course? Irrigation, anyone? Let's recreate a little bit of Scotland in the...continued→

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