Phase 02 FUTURE CITY DESIGN Swot analysis

Core Concept

A Sustainable City providing the highest quality of life with the lowest environmental footprint.

In This City:

• 100% Renewable Energy

• Zero Waste

• Net Zero Carbon Fossil Fuel

• Improved environmental heritage architectural elements in House and neighborhood to cope up with future technology.

In Our Future City We Dream to

(Brainstorming Ideas)

• Solve social issues

Create an issue-solution-type innovation model that will sustain Palestine’s (in particular and Middle-East Cities in general) future economic growth by bringing together cutting-edge technologies, products and services.

• Create Architectural and urban spaces in which anybody would be happy to live

Attempt to create satisfactory relationship with communities and residents, and in a manner reflecting their purpose, solve the issues they face, improve people’s quality of life, and thereby ensure the sustainable progress of regions.

• Boost industrial competitiveness by exercising widespread power

Bring together the technologies, products and services that companies have in a manner that transcends sectors, and package them so they can fight ahead using comprehensive power.

• Grow through national and overseas expansion

Aim to apply the results achieved to wide expansion across domestic regions and the overseas market

Why This Project is Important

The opportunity of climate change

The world’s climate is changing. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible: most of this change is due to human activity, and the process is speeding up as more and more carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere.

The next 10 years are critical. Carbon dioxide emissions must be cut rapidly. If they are, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we may limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees centigrade. But if we continue on regardless – and towns and cities contribute up to half of all emissions – the rise could be up to six degrees centigrade.

This could trigger mass extinction of many plants and animals, a complete loss of ice sheets, rising sea levels and significantly altered weather patterns. There is no luxury of time.

The impact of greenhouse effect will be so visible in the Middle East; every town and city will feel the effects from a rise of two degrees. As more and more of the world’s population crowds into cities, the urban environment needs to become a better place to live: a place that improves health, well-being and economic prosperity while simultaneously – and dramatically – reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This means re-designing how we think and how we organize our lives. It requires courage, vision and leadership as well as new vision of spaces we live in.

Alongside the climate crisis, we face an economic crisis. Rather than the world’s economic disorder diverting attention from the need to become more sustainable, the two problems in fact provide a remarkable opportunity for positive change. Nevertheless, we need to think big. The costs to the nation if the country faced a food or water crisis, or a power shortage, would dwarf the saving to the banking sector.

This is why we “Sustainable Designs group”, elsewhere SD, believe investment in sustainable development as a national insurance policy. It is not just a responsibility for markets to take on, but also a positive choice for government to make and the public to authorize.

In the context of an international ‘green thinking’, it is encouraging that relatively small investments can deliver so much. It can create new jobs, limit the environmental impact of towns and cities, and reduce the cost of running them.

Cities that respond well to climate change will be more efficient, resilient places. That response can also help to solve social and economic problems, such as fuel poverty and traffic congestion, and so deliver a better quality of life.

If civic leaders can see that a vigorous response delivers what their citizens want, then creating a low carbon, sustainable environment becomes a promising ground for change instead of a quagmire.

Plenty of technological aids are emerging, of course. The real answer lies in changing the way we govern, finance, manage and design cities.

Swot analysis

How to accomplish a sustainable city design?

In this research, SD will attempt to solve the following thoughts to be talented to suggest sustainable continuous development for the perfect sustainable city design.