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The town will sit on 47-acres and have roughly
1,000-homes. The city will be named Fujisawa City and it will be found in the
Kanagawa Prefecture. If the town turns out to be as energy conscious as the
designers hope it could become a prototype for future energy efficient cities
across Japan and the world.
The idea behind this design is not to simply
pair down everything found in a modern city to make it more energy efficient,
but to pair power saving devices and infrastructure with power generating
systems, such as solar panels in order to create a town that is both
ecologically sustainable and easy to live in. The town is expected, not to show
off any new innovative technology but to show how by layering existing green
technologies they can work in unison and create a sustainable urban
environment.
The city will even be designed with the use of
electric cars in mind. The system will also pair this technology with a network
of sensors that help to control the use of public resources, such as lighting,
to reduce the use of power when it is not needed.
The city is expected to begin accepting residents in March of 2014 and be filled up by 2018.
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