Wednesday, March 18, 2009

A New Kind of High-Rise Development (Summary)


Part 1:

This article is about a project which is designed to inspire the importance of living sustainably and maintaining earth’s biodiversity in Sweden. The project succeeded and people start to love it. A brief description follows.
A project shocked everyone who heard about it and having a good demand because it’s the only special place not only for humans to live, but similarly for wild creatures to grow, aiming at sustainable living. Ten 'green' features have been incorporated and an enriched biodiversity has been promoted of its unique ideas. The first phase was 1300 apartments which have been leased out. Residents there started to instill the importance of living sustainably and maintaining Earth's biodiversity. Residents feel the project has been successful but that more could be done. The developers are now learning from Bo01 to plan the green features for the next two building phases to encourage environmental awareness in the purchase of properties.
In summary, if this project continues productively then, we will have children who will grow up understating ecology and wanting to save the earth and some animals will have a better life.


Part 2:

In this article from The Guardian, 2008, the writer talks about a new kind of high-rise development called The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden for people and some kinds of animals and bugs. Already 1300 apartments were leased out. There are several reasons why this project was excellent and why they are continuing with the next 2 phases. The aim of this project is to inspire the importance of living sustainably and maintaining earth’s biodiversity. He uses the comments of people who live in phase 1 like Martin Rugfelt as examples. He outlined some information why people would love to stay in this type of area and how it is suitable for some animals to live there.

Part 3:

I think this topic is very interesting because it talks about an interesting project where people can live and learn and maintain earth’s biodiversity. In my opinion, the article is well organized. In addition, the writer mentioned what was the feedback of people who live there. I agree with what Kruuse said about his project which is not made anywhere else except in Sweden. The idea in this article reminds me of a movie called Prison Break which talks about a similar project. However, I would like to know if GCC countries are thinking to start with a similar project or not.

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