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New Sustainable City in Macedonia

Blessed with the unique power of limited understanding, for centuries human supremacy stood as the universal rule for success and progress. With this organized human dominance, present humankind challenged the once unapproachable frontiers of the planet climate equilibrium. For some it is Mother Nature’s perpetual behavior, for others the point of self-destruction. With only a minimum effort given to understand its power and relevance, the human ignorance continued to consume the values of commodity and comfort to achieve an illusion of happiness and self-achievement. Until about five years ago, this illusion created the world’s greatest financial crisis that until today still has no resolution. Addressing the present environmental, social and economic issues by designing a sustainable city becomes a daunting challenge. Given the global unfavorable urban conditions, it is somewhat difficult to understand how the city, man greatest achievement, can also be comprehended as a redemption. Nevertheless, the only certainty of the evolution pattern of civilization is that global population increases will additionally worsens these conditions. Unlike in the past centuries when population increases favored the rich and well established, these patterns now occur in rural regions of undeveloped societies that begin to grow swiftly but without the infrastructure to meet the demand. Additionally disadvantaging are the patterns of intensive sprawl of the mega metropolis which are now captives of the amplifying cost of energy and the congestion of transportation. Therefore, it is an imperative to visualize the New City with its predetermined scale as the most efficient sustainable smart tool to mitigate the consequences of these undesirable patterns that are causing social and environmental destruction. The project for a New Sustainable City in Macedonia is an approach that envisions multidisciplinary contributions to society, environment and the economy. Its purpose is to present the best example of a new civilized relation between natural and artificial environment. The design implements values of the walkable and community based transportation methods, multiple socially interactive public squares and elevated residence living. It aims to protect the natural environment and mitigate ecological threats due to climate changes.

sustainability ; city planning ; urban design ; master plan

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