cool cities

Cool cities are projects that will have zero carbon emission and an example of cool cities is Masdar city. But are cool cities practical? In my opinion they are not. In this essay I will outline some of the reason why I think that cool cities are not practical.

The first reason why cool cities are not practical is the size of the world population. There are over 6 billion people (International program center), around the world and these cities take only less than 50000 people which mean that they have to build 120000 cool cities or more because the continuous growth of the people around the world. Additional to that it’s impossible to build more than 120000 cities because there are no land specs for all these new cities on earth.

The second reason is the cost of these projects. Masder city cost around $22 billion (Wiemers). Most cities in the world can’t afford to build these cities. Building one city is not enough for one country which means that they have to build more which they will pay double. This kind of money can build more than one project to reduce the spreading of carbon dioxide than one project like cool cities.

In conclusion these kinds of projects are a waste of money and can’t even take a population of one country.

"International Programs." Census Bureau Home Page. 14 May 2009 http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html.

Masdar will build $22 billion carbon-free city -." ClimateChangeCorp.com. 14 May 2009 http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5172.