Environment Friendly Eco - City

Abstract

The World witnessed over the past few decades a clear change in the urban existence map, where the number of cities' residents has increased and the cities geographic area expanded, also networks of roads and electric power stations were spread. This extraordinary events caused the drawing of a different identity to the world, race with itself in the field of energy and raw materials consumption. Therefore, the research issue individualizes in the lack of available knowledge concerning the subject of environment friendly ecological urban desiging and planning.So the research aims to define the environmentally friendly eco-city' structural elements and to clarify their most important planning and design foundations. To Investigative this goal the research has assumed that "the human urban agglomerations' development towards environment friendly ecological ones would depend on finding a complete urban structure grounded on a numbers of foundations and standards which are basically inspired from the qualities of systems in such natural environment".

Keywords

• urban sustainability, Natural environment, urbanism, ecological system, functional ecological zoning