The Guardian Cities: Skylines challenge – can I build the world's greenest city?
by Karl Mathiesen from Technology | The Guardian on (#GK1P)
Will real-world ideals of urban planning work on a computer simulator? Environmental writer Karl Mathiesen tests the eco-limits in 'Hopenhagen'
Welcome to a city built with one goal: to be the greenest of bergs. I aimed to use the Cities: Skylines simulator to provide the residents of my little city (current population: 78k) with 100% renewable electricity, effective mass transportation and well-paid jobs in clean industries and high-tech sectors.
This is not a vision of some utopic future. The Danish capital Copenhagen, by some accounts the greenest city on Earth, uses today's technologies and is en route to sustainability.
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