Eco-cities can be defined as places where people can live healthier and economically productive lives while reducing their impact on the environment. They work to harmonize existing policies, regional realities, and economic and business markets with their natural resources and environmental assets. Eco-Cities strive to engage all citizens in collaborative and transparent decision making, while being mindful of social equity concerns.
Advantages regarding Eco-cities and its inhabitants
Ecological cities enable their residents to live a good quality of life while using minimal natural resources. Using local materials, and local energy, air and water flows (sunlight, wind and rain) to best advantage, incorporating natural ecosystems into urban areas, to host local wildlife, and to enhance the experience of urban public spaces, using vegetation to control urban microclimates – to stabilise temperature and humidity enhancing the life of the community and relationships between people, by creating convivial social environments. Supporting an innovative culture which enables people to flourish and develop their creative potential, and use new technologies to improve liveability.
An Eco city in a developed country
The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city’s vision as seen in figure one is to be a thriving city which is socially harmonious, environmentally-friendly and resource-efficient of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city started moving into their new homes earlier last year in February leg of an ambitious drive towards turning China's megacities from polluted, congested metropolises into new urban centres. Up to 20 percent of the city's energy is created from renewable sources, such as solar and geothermal power, and 90 percent of its transport comes from "green transport," which refers to non-motorized or public transport. Groups of companies came together to build such a city which is very expansive. It is a flagship cooperation project between the