Critic's Notebook - In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Jim Proctor on 26 Sep 10A fascinating review, certainly to understand the technological advances of this "sustainable city" but also to understand its shadows: "[the designer's] fantasy world is only possible as a meticulously planned community, built from the ground up and of modest size. What Masdar really represents, in fact, is the crystallization of another global phenomenon: the growing division of the world into refined, high-end enclaves and vast formless ghettos where issues like sustainability have little immediate relevance." Is this what we are after?