Buildings will make best use of sun, wind and rainfall to help supply the energy and water needs of occupants. Generally multistory to maximize the land available for greenspace.

Bicycle City will be an ecologically health city. It will be car free. Today’s cities are making life systems on the planet—the ecology of the planet—very sick. Even the atmosphere and oceans are developing a fever, heating up. Animals and plants all around the world are dying because people have not been noticing that the way we build cities for cars instead of people is backfiring. Now some people are saying, “Hey—something is wrong. We have not been noticing that this invention called the automobile and its entire support system—highways paving the planet, housing scattered across agricultural land and deep into natural places, gasoline, oil, wars for oil and on and on. All this has been a big mistake.” We can build cities that are very different and very healthy. In its design and functioning it is informed by ecological principles: assiduous recycling, maintaining maximum biodiversity, being very efficient in energy and materials, having a compact generally three-dimensional form like complex natural living organisms.

Inspirations

Resources

• Ecocity Builders
• Auroville
• Carfree Cities
• Dongtan Ecocity
• World Carfree Network

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