Guiding Principles
There are 10 principles that are proposed to create an eco-city. The developers of Dongtan have used them in order to create a carbon-free city.
- Revise land use priorities
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- Create green, and safe mixed communities
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- Revise transportation priorities
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- Favour foot, bicycle, cart and transit over auto
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- Restore damaged urban environments
- Create decent, safe, and economically mixed housing
- Nurture social justice and create improved opportunities
- Support local agriculture
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- Create community gardens
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- Promote recycling and resource conservation
- Work with businesses to support ecologically sound economic activity
- Promote voluntary simplicity
- Increase awareness of the local environment
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“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)