Blog Project Task 6- Cool Cities

Modern cities around the globe are developing in many ways with respect to transportation, buildings and a lot more and this is also happening in the UAE. As these cities become more developed and modernize they have a great effect on global warming. This development has led to a negative consequence in that the UAE uses as much as up to what is needed for 6.6 planets (Salama 1). In this article we are going to see how modern cities affect the global warming and some solutions. Finally, I will give my opinion on this topic.
First of all let’s take a look in how modern cities contribute to climate changes. One way in which they contribute to global warming is due to building design. To clarify this point, 90 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted into the air is from buildings (Cool Cities). According to Hope, materials used in buildings as well as the way building is built far from each other makes the temperatures much higher than natural. Another point worthy of mentioning is transportation which is a major problem. In big cities such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi traffic delays occurs because of the big numbers of cars and taxis and less number of other public transportations this increases carbon emission in to the air and affect global warming (Cool Cities).
Now I am going to give some possible solutions that our country started to work on. To start with Mechanical roofs that responds to the temperature have been considered as well as circulating seawater under pavements, all these are to make the city outer temperature cooler (Hope 1). Moreover, they are also thinking to install large fans to make artificial breeze as well as to shade the street with big umbrellas (Hope 1). These new projects and especially Masdar are inspired by old Arabic cities (Stanton).These were all kinds of climate mitigation (Hope 1). In addition, some possible solution for Transportation which plays a big role on affecting global warming was found. Firstly, mono rail to travel between cities, light rail transit within the city and solar ships as water transport (Cool Cities).
In conclusion, I really admire the new cities which are going to be built in future I like the new techniques which are used. But I would like to ask a question do the UAE and Middle Eastern countries are ready to replace the petrol with other means? Considering that they know that global warming is a big problem? Let’s hope for a better place to live in with a clea