Tree towers in Taiwan and mega-pyramid of Tokyo: Cities of the future are here | Mail Online
Free wi-fi everywhere, streets dedicated to free-flowing public transport, cars banned, and no waste or carbon emissions - but while these may sound like far-fetched cities of the future, they are already here.
Masdar city, only a few miles from the Middle Eastern economic powerhouse of Abu Dhabi, will be fully operational by 2020 and plans to recycle most of its water. It will also ban 'gas-guzzling' cars, which will be replaced by a subterranean battery-operated transport system.
Similar ecological moves are afoot in China, where Dezhou in the north of the country has created 'solar valley' with street lights and swimming pools heated by the sun and 80 per cent of buildings with solar water heaters.
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