China’s Dongtan Eco-City On Hold
While attending the Time Warner Principal Voices event last year, Wang Rongfeng of the development firm was on the panel discussing the importance of the Dongtan Eco-city project. What was interesting for many was the grandeur of the plans, and the fact that little had been done at that time. When I asked him what technologies they were using on the island that had been adapted for China’s second tier market, it was apparent that there was little learning going on.
6 months later, with Hands On becoming an official partner of the WWF Dongtan program, we began to learn that while the wetland project was going well… the eco-city was not.. and to hear that the program is now on hold is a bit of a shock given the fact that this was China’s model eco-city project.
Makes you wonder what will happen to the eco-city projects in Tianjin, Changsha, and elsewhere
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