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  2003 AILA Victoria & Tasmania
 Awards in Landscape Architecture

Flemings Nurseries
Major Partner
                      
environment awards
Award for Environmental Excellence


NINGBO ESD, CHINA

Landscape Architect:
 HASSELL Pty Ltd
 

Client:
Ningbo Planning Authority, P.R., China
 

  
Philosophy

 The new Ningbo is designed to use half the water of a conventional western city; cleaning its stormwater in lakes and wetlands, and storing it for reuse in canals and urban waterways and utilising treatment on a third pipe system for recycling.  These also provide flood control, drainage, and arteries for water transport.  The city will generate about 50% of the energy it consumes; using wind turbines as urban icons in the main open spaces; and through methane ‘eggs’ connected to the sewer system.   The overall plan will encourage the change in transport mode from predominantly cycles and pedestrians (80%); to the most efficient mechanised public transport modes, minimising increases in private vehicles, and providing a high capacity underground rapid transit link between old Ningbo and the new centre.  Land use, development density and transport corridors are arranged to allow high efficiency systems to be economically viable, flexible for growth and change over time; and provide a high standard of service and convenience.
 
Jury Comments

Through the clever use of existing technologies Hassell Pty. Ltd. create an innovative city. For example, wind turbines and methane eggs are not new but their design and integration into the city turn these into design features and not plain infrastructure. Ningbo and its ESD application make this project a benchmark for other cities to follow.
 

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 The Hassell Ningbo New City Centre conceptual model     The New City embraces its landscape     Urban canals, water ways and wetlands the multi purpose water system     Urban canals, water ways and wetlands the multi purpose water system     Urban canals, water ways and wetlands the multi purpose water system

  Icons of ESD: wind turbines      Icons of ESD: methane eggs
                                                           

  Last Updated: 01 May 2004

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