School of Planning and Architecture

Eco City-Dongton,China
Sustainability means meeting our community’s present needs while preserving our historic character and ensuring
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves balancing and integrating environmental,
economic, health and social issues so as to maximize the quality of life for all. Sustainable development means
attaining a balance between environmental protection and human economic development and between the
present and future needs. It means equity in development and sectoral actions across space and time.
It requires an integration of economic, social and environmental approaches towards development.
Sustainable urban development refers to attaining social equity and environmental protection in urbanization
while minimizing the costs of urbanization.

What is Eco City?

“It is an urban center that is moving towards controlled and sustainable patterns of consumption
and growth.”

What is Eco -City concept?

•It means reducing the Ecological Footprint while simultaneously improving the Quality of Life–for
our and future Generations -within the Capacity Limits of the City

Master Plan
The scientific and technological objective of the ECO-City project is to establish the technological basis and to
demonstrate innovative integrated energy concepts in the supply and demand side.

The focus of the Eco-city Project is:

1. To improve environment through conservation of natural resources, management of sewerage, drainage and
solid waste; reduction of air and water pollution; recycling of wastes and creation of job opportunities for the urban
poor:

2. To improve visual qualities through urban design of selected complexes and landscaping of parks and open
spaces and providing green belts;

3. To improve traffic management by providing efficient circulation, parking, pedestrian system that cater to the
residents as well as the visitors to the town;

4. To build capacities of the stakeholders to prepare and implement projects;

5. To monitor the projects using specific environmental indicators;

6. To document the project impact;

7. To improve urban management and for this purpose, promote networking of participating cities with similar
cities in Europe; and

8. To improve tourism and job opportunities.

vision and leadership
“China’s current development is ecologically
unsustainable, and the damage will not be reversible
once higher GDP has been achieved”
Zhenhua Xie, Minister of State Environmental Protection Agency
THE ECO-CITY- DONGTON
The eco-city is an umbrella metaphor that encompasses a wide range of urban-ecological proposals that
aim to achieve urban sustainability. These approaches propose a wide range of environmental, social, and
institutional policies that are directed to managing urban spaces to achieve sustainability.

Dongton promotes the ecological agenda and emphasizes environmental management through a set of
institutional and policy tools. The distinctive concepts of the eco-city are greening and passive solar
design. In terms of density and other concepts, the eco-city might be conceived as a “formless” city or an
ecoamorphous city. There are some approaches that emphasize the passive solar design, such as the
Ecovillage, Solar Village.

It is remarkable that the core of many approaches is the management of the Dongton city, rather than
the suggesting of any specific urban form; it is believed that not the physical shape of the Dongton city
and its built environment that is important; it is how the urban society is organized and managed that
counts most.

Therefore, the Dongton city is managed to achieve sustainability through different land use,
environmental, institutional, social, and economic policies In practice, many local governments, planning
consultants, landscape architects, and so on are grappling much more specifically with aspects of
ecological, pedestrian oriented, or otherwise sustainable urban form.
Submitted by :- Shashikant Nishant Sharma

B.Planning
School of Planning and Architecture
New Delhi
Email: sns.sahil@gmail.com
www.sureshotpost.blogspot.com
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