3 / 13 West Houston: green corridors based on the existing water system
Traditional cities, which are solely energy consumers, are facing both the challenge and the opportunity of accommodating energy production within their footprints. This challenge will be even bigger with the ambition of managing urban growth in more compact models of development.
Historically, political, religious and geographic agents have defined our cities. In the new era, the logic of energy production and distribution will start having a significant impact on the spatial organization of the urban growth.
传统城市仅仅是是能源的消费者,在新能源时代,从城市内部解决部分供能问题成为可能,这既是挑战,也是机遇。若以紧凑且高密度的模式组织城市扩张,这种挑战将会更加艰巨。历史上,传统城市多由政治、宗教以及地理因素所定义。在新能源时代,能源的生产与配置将会深刻地影响城市空间布局及其扩张蔓延的模式。