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And unlike any other city in the world, Masdar City will have no carbon footprint.
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Foster and Partners, an architectural firm based in London, has done the initial design work for Masdar City.
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Masdar City sits in the desert about 10 miles outside of Abu Dhabi, a pioneer town for sustainability and urban design.
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In addition, Masdar City will be a test bed for new technologies.
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Masdar City reps are currently on a roadshow most recently in Sweden trying to woo international corporations and investment to this eco-city in the sun.
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"Abu Dhabi wanted to show that it's aware of its carbon footprint today, " says Khaled Awad, the man in charge of building Masdar City.
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And in a way, many of the benefits of building Masdar City will flow to the West, Ardalan says, because so many Western firms are contributing.
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Haidar Talib, an Emirati travelled the 141km from Masdar City to Al Thiqa Club for Handicapped in Sharjah in 14 hours, 28 seconds on a solar-powered wheelchair.
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In July 2010, ADFEC CEO Sultan al-Jaber announced that Masdar City would not be scaled back, but some industry observers believed the initiative would release a revised master plan.
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This gleaming example of sustainable urban living just 17km east of Abu Dhabi is currently more university and business campus than metropolis, but when Masdar City is complete in 2025, it will be home to 40, 000 residents and 50, 000 commuters.
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She has also traveled to Abu Dhabi to report on the pre-planned sustainable city Masdar, tasted wine made by robots in California's Napa Valley, explored four space capsules, covered the privatization of space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and gone behind the bars of San Quentin Prison to see how the institution taught inmates to make mini satellites.
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