What Does a New, Masterplanned City Look Like in 2018?

建立一个全新的想法, 城市总体规划已经有很长一段时间了, 传奇, 全球历史. 这可能是最著名的理论, 埃比尼泽·霍华德心目中的花园城市, 建立这样的例子 勒·柯布西耶的昌迪加尔 to 尼迈耶的巴西利亚, designing a from-scratch city has been tried in many ways with varying degrees of success. But what does it mean to build one in the 21st century? 在世界的一个地区，它一直 多次尝试 近年来, 波斯湾, how can you succeed at both the master planning and then construction and actualization of a new city?

The Sultanate of Oman is currently trying to figure out how to do exactly that. An 关于CityLab的文章 描述新城市:

“酒店Al-Irfan will be located to the west of Muscat, 阿曼的首都, 在国际机场附近. The government has already built a convention center and a few hotels on the 1,500-acre site. Over the next 30 years it plans to add a central business district, 一所大学, 政府大楼, 露天市场, 清真寺, 还有居民区, with the aim of hosting a population of 280,000.”

“With a Wadi Park as it’s spine, Irfan will be a city with public space as its heart. Madinat Al Irfan will become an exemplar both locally and regionally, 为城市发展提供典范. 重要的是, Madinat Al Irfan will also become a catalyst for change in Oman; setting new benchmarks in terms of sustainability and urban design, providing public transport while creating a magnet for business, a centre for tourism and a great place to live and work.”

Will the urbanist underpinnings of 酒店Al-Irfan allow it to succeed where other new cities have failed to deliver? 是密度, 通过性, and a good transit system more likely to create a sustainable city then setting out to build “the world’s most sustainable eco-city”, 就像他们在附近做的那样 马斯达尔, a city that has yet to live up to it’s lofty goals? Is “把普通的事情做好”, as architects Allies and Morrison describe as their primary goal for the city, 这是让项目成功的最好方法? Only time will tell, but 酒店Al-Irfan is certainly a place to watch,

了解更多 about the masterplan under development on the official website for 酒店Al-Irfan.

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