Masdar City

In February 2008, Masdar (which means “the source” in Arabic) will break ground on the six-square-kilometer city that its backers say will be the first zero-pollution, zero-waste city. T…

Norman Foster’s Masdar City is poised to become world’s most sustainable, zero-waste, car-free, carbon neutral city. The model for the city was formally unveiled on 21st January at the W…

Masdar City is an emerging global clean-technology cluster located in what aims to be one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments powered by renewable energy. Located about 17km fro…

Plodding pods ... driverless vehicles pass by each other in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi – but it might be quicker to walk. Photograph: Kamran Jebreili/AP Masdar City is like a mirage: a walled city…

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United A…

The first project as a result of the Masdar Initiative is a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing…

The Market @ Masdar kicked off at 10am on Friday. After parking their lowly fossil-fueled vehicles in the entrance parking lot, visitors rode driverless pod cars through a rather dull (but prefabric…

Madar City: design of the public realm Masdar City is an emerging clean-technology cluster located in what aims to be one of the world’s most sustainable cities powered by renewable energy. The de…