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Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Harvard Business School has published a paper that reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early “ecocity’ projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry.

Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex urban systems.

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Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? (PDF Document)