With reference to Harvey, David. 2000. "The Spaces of Utopia," Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds, Part II (Twynstra: Amersfoort, Netherlands), 53-81. The history and the diversity of the megacities has come since the eighteenth century, and it became more complicated with current technology and innovations, in every decade different thoughts and concepts have been raised with the definition of the sustainable city. Turning over cities to a sustainable cities, is a long-term investment, for example the built environment, as well as enhancing a stable infrastructure for a long term environmental achievement.
If we talk about the Utopia and the definition, Utopia means a better life, and it came since 1516 from Thomas more.
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If we look to this project from a different perspective, as we stated above the concept of utopia is a city and society, Masdar city is a high end city, the society can’t involve living in this city from the economic term, and at the same time, the government is pumping money to success the objective of this project, the project cost is around 18-22 billion US dollars and take approximately eight years to build. The labor built and service this city weren’t aware about the concepts of this city, and at the same time, the sustainability criteria’s weren’t implemented in the way of their living. Form the other hand, the UAE society were not educated well about the objective of this city, as this city was designed and establish to a certain class of people. This is against the concept of sustainability and doesn’t reflect the idea of a utopian …show more content…
"Wicked Problems in Design Thinking." Design Issues: 5. Design thinking is a wide term with no specific guidelines, and it can be considered as a method to convert designer’s sense to be matched with peoples’ needs and solve people and society problem which they are dealing with. I agreed to the author’s assumption of the wicked problems have no definitive formulation, but every formulation corresponds to the formulation of a solution. At the same time, there is no true or false about the problems, either to be good or bad. Every problem has more than one explanation, and each explanation is depend on the design
If we talk about the Utopia and the definition, Utopia means a better life, and it came since 1516 from Thomas more.
Let’s picture …show more content…
If we look to this project from a different perspective, as we stated above the concept of utopia is a city and society, Masdar city is a high end city, the society can’t involve living in this city from the economic term, and at the same time, the government is pumping money to success the objective of this project, the project cost is around 18-22 billion US dollars and take approximately eight years to build. The labor built and service this city weren’t aware about the concepts of this city, and at the same time, the sustainability criteria’s weren’t implemented in the way of their living. Form the other hand, the UAE society were not educated well about the objective of this city, as this city was designed and establish to a certain class of people. This is against the concept of sustainability and doesn’t reflect the idea of a utopian …show more content…
"Wicked Problems in Design Thinking." Design Issues: 5. Design thinking is a wide term with no specific guidelines, and it can be considered as a method to convert designer’s sense to be matched with peoples’ needs and solve people and society problem which they are dealing with. I agreed to the author’s assumption of the wicked problems have no definitive formulation, but every formulation corresponds to the formulation of a solution. At the same time, there is no true or false about the problems, either to be good or bad. Every problem has more than one explanation, and each explanation is depend on the design