Building eco-cities in China.The London-based consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a Arup has signed a multibillion-dollar contract with Chinese officials to design and build up to five self-sustaining "eco-cities" around China. The first eco-city, Dongtan, on an island near Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , is expected to be home to about 1.15 million people by 2040. The city's first phase, accommodating 50,000 residents, will be completed in time for the 2010 Shanghai Expo trade fair. Other locations have not yet been revealed. The cities, a magnet for investment funds Noun 1. investment funds - money that is invested with an expectation of profit investment assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company , will feature the capture and purification purification, in religion, the ceremonial removal of what the religion deems unclean. The usual agents of purification are water (as in baptism), bodily alteration (as in circumcision), and fire. of rainwater to support city life, use of organic waste materials as an energy source, and reduction of environmentally unfriendly landfills. Arup has also partnered with emissions brokerage CO2e to offset the carbon generated by personnel working on the initiative. |
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