Editor’s Insight: Green dream city dies in the desert
The zero-emissions and solar-powered Masdar City is a ghost town. With special audio feature.
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A futuristic project called Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates was planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city.
Instead, it has become an expensive folly in the desert … the world’s first green ghost town.
I have been in some impressive buildings in the Gulf; in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, and
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Editor’s Insight: Green dream city dies in the desert
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