Unit 4
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Masdar City – a positive step?
Main ideas:
- Megaprojects are huge investment projects that cost a lot of money.
- There are many examples of megaprojects such as airports, bridges, stations, entire city complexes, etc.
- Megaprojects exist to bring new economic growth and benefits to cities.
- Many megaprojects have been criticised because of their negative effects on a community or the environment.
- Masdar City is a megaproject in Abu Dhabi.
- Masdar City is a car-free zone and an investment zone, enabling foreign ownership of property and companies, and attracting clean tech companies of all sizes and types to test, commercialise and deploy clean energy technologies.
- Masdar City is strongly focused on sustainable development, through the reduction of demand for energy and water, and recycling and reuse of waste material particularly during construction activities.
- Energy will be provided by solar power and wind farms.
- The current residents of Masdar City are all students at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.
- Masdar City is criticised because it is felt that, instead of building an artificial sustainable city, sustainability should be made a priority of existing cities.
- The benefits of Masdar City for the community and the environment greatly outweigh any disadvantages.
- Masdar City will be a blueprint for future urban planning that will inspire similar megaprojects in other countries.
| pronoun reference | ||
| Word | line | reference |
| which | 2 | Megaprojects |
| they | 5 | Megaprojects |
| it | 11 | a megaproject |
| their | 13 | many Megaprojects |
| which | 17 | Masdar City |
| it | 20 | Masdar City |
| It | 26 | The city |
| its | 29 | Masdar City |
| whose | 44 | a university |
| it (1) | 49 | the project/Masdar City |