Choose a Location
Before you begin, you need a spot. Deserts, undeveloped jungles and uninhabited islands are popular. You could also choose an existing city to completely reinvent.
City Priorities
Your city needs to have features of physical environment and qualities of life that make a location a desirable, competitive and economically vibrant place to live.
HEALTH
EDUCATION
SUSTAINABILITY
PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY
POLITICAL EFFICIENCY
SOCIAL EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Reliable Water Supply
Public water is most often supplied by surface water or groundwater. Large cities and towns usually get their water from surface water supplies or a mix of surface and groundwater supplies.
WATER FROM THE SUN Sunny Clean Water developed a technology that can harness the power of the sun during water evaporation and create clean and cheap water. | FOG CATCHERS Mist is caught as it passes through a weave of large vertical nets and trickles into a collection system where it is filtered and mixed with groundwater. | DESALINATION Desalination – the process that removes salt and minerals from seawater. |
WATER FROM AIR The technology, called the Source Hydropanel runs on a pretty simple premise. Solar energy heats a sponge-like material to create condensation that is collected in a 30-liter reservoir. The water is filtered, and minerals are added to improve the taste of the water. | SOLAR POWERED WATER FILTRATION Innovative Water Technologies developed water filtration systems that are a self-contained portable solar and wind-powered system. | HARNESSING WAVES A wave-powered desalination system is gathering momentum in a bid to target off-grid, coastal communities in developing nations facing water shortages. |
Sustainable Cities
A sustainable city is self-sufficient in energy, manages waste to produce energy, has more sustainable transport, maintains green spaces and manages and uses natural resources.
SOLAR ENERGY
WIND ENERGY
HYDRO ENERGY
BIOTHERMAL ENERGY
RECYCLING AND REDUCTION
ECONOMIC MATERIALS
Job Market: Commerce
If your city is to be economically sustainable, it needs jobs. The job market is the market in which employers search for employees and employees search for jobs. The job market is not a physical place as much as a concept demonstrating the competition and interplay between different labor forces. It is also known as the labor market.
CONSUMER GOODS
RESOURCE PRODUCTION
TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTION
LIVESTOCK AND FISHING
POWER GENERATION
AGRICULTURE AND ECOLOGY
Public Transportation
Public transportation can convey many more people in much less space than individual automobiles, which helps to keep traffic congestion lower, which in turn reduces air pollution from idling vehicles, and helps riders avoid the stress that comes from daily driving in highly congested areas.
Sustainable Housing
Sustainable housing is the concept of building a home that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable, from the initial design phase right through to construction and living.
BIOCLIMATIC HOUSES
PASSIVE HOUSES
WOODEN HOUSES
TINY HOUSES
RENEWABLE ENERGY
VERTICAL GARDENS
City Planning
Urban (or city) planners try to figure out the best way to use the land in cities and neighborhoods—for example houses, stores, parks, schools, roads. Planners try to balance many things: such as housing, jobs, schools, traffic, the environment Planners update or make new plans when more people move into a community or are expected to. Before making plans for a community, planners need to know many important things. We find out where people live, how many people use the streets, highways, water, sewers, schools, libraries, museums, and parks. Planners listen to the advice of people who live in the communities. With these and many other facts, we explain the new plans and work to make them happen.
Building Your City
STEP ONE: Create your structures
STEP TWO: Attach buildings and landscape
STEP THREE: Add Sustainable Features
Standards Alignment: