人间天堂? 

我孤陋寡闻, 今天才读到这个.

一群投资商, 设计师要把上海旁边的一个小岛(Dongtan) 建设成人间天堂! [LINK]

We are the designers and masterplanners for Dongtan the world’s first eco-city, which will be sustainable not just environmentally, but also socially, economically and culturally.

他们的目标是把Dongtan建设成现代城市的同时, 在岛上的珍稀鸟类还能继续在上面生存!

McKinsey wanted to know if the developer, the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation, could bring businesses to the island without messing up thet bird habitat.

有时间读读这个把, 很长. [LINK]

有可能么? 预计2010年完成. 拭目以待!

If Dongtan lives up to expectations, it will serve as a model for cities across China and the rest of the developing world — cities that, given new tools, might leapfrog the environmental and public health costs that have always come with economic progress, a relationship Gutierrez calls “the nightmare of the 20th century.”

“Shanghai will grow,” Gutierrez says. “The question is how it will grow. We can program into its DNA a sustainable growth pattern. We have to make cities, as much as we can, future proof .”