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One of the biggest barriers during the research process was the willingness and cooperation to provide information by companies and corporations in the SSTEC. Several companies which are involved in the planning and development process have been requested if possible to provide further information and current development status of their involvement. Most of the companies were not willing to provide information, referring to their websites for information; other didn’t respond at all and others were not willing to answer any inquiries.
The on-site research and questioning of citizens simply represents a subjective opinion, it is helpful to evaluate the indicators and obtain a subjective view of daily life experience in the eco-city which forms a different perspective besides those of the planner and developers who often refer to future results and improvements (mostly for the time of completion), merely not providing details about the current development and circumstances on site. I doubt that all information or current statuses of development are all classified as sensitive data.
5.6 Future Prospects
One of the common characteristics of eco-cities is the lack of an overall global recognized definition of an eco-city, furthermore it seems like every project is making use of different standards, indicator systems and guidelines to follow. In the case of China even projects in the same prefectural cities or in other domestic regions are not using same systems or directives, making it rather difficult to evaluate or compare the projects. While not saying it is impossible, it seems clear that domestically standard guidelines would help to simplify and
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facilitate eco-city projects, making it much easier to plan and develop common features or ease the exchange between concepts on a different level of cooperation.
The designers of the SSTEC are probably aware of the fact that their eco-city is under constant observation, due to the fact that it is a joint-venture collaboration on the central governmental level, and so has attracted much more attention than other eco-city projects in China. The Chinese government should use this kind of platform for promotion purposes by representing a different disclosure policy. This could help to attract new investments and ease the way for further cooperation and transfer of the projects successful mechanisms. Such a strategy could help to prevent lobbyism or corruption by not letting the market regulate itself but rather provide necessary incentives to attract investments and the image of a viable, greening city which is not profit-orientated but rather promotes environment-protective measurements suitable for other regions (in China).
Whether or not the Tianjin Eco-City will be as successful and flourishing as hoped only time can tell, nonetheless the current development and status of the project is clearly showing that it is a project which has successfully been built from scratch, something which couldn’t have been done in areas of the Western hemisphere. The fact that the project is planned as an affordable and feasible project makes it more attractive for other regions to consider making use of the scalable and replicable approach of the eco-city and its features. Moreover, the fact that there is an existing inhabited city compared to other counterparts shows the clear path and possibilities of the SSTEC project. The rehabilitation
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process was a full success and could help to support the construction of green development in regions where such constructions weren’t even thinkable before.
The project has good ambitions to get replicated in other regions in China because it is definitely an improvement over a lot of other regions in China and especially with regard to failed or stopped eco-city projects it is still attracting investment and already features visible achievements.
Finally, one of the crucial points which need to be mentioned about any eco-city development in the world is the developers’ and governments’ ability to promote and integrate eco-awareness into their development and constructions. The eco-city might have the best technological preconditions and green building constructions, but without the necessary awareness for an appropriate lifestyle in an eco-city any expertise is worthless, because the people who are living in the city have not changed their lives in order to pursue a more sustainable way of living. Of course technology and the fact that buildings are in accordance with green buildings standards are facts which are not going to change, but if the people who are using them are not behaving conform to a certain basic code of conduct it might be difficult to fulfill the ambitious indicators and set ecological targets for the eco-city.
In order to create a viable habitat in the Tianjin Eco-City it is necessary to foster educational programs for people who haven’t formed their own eco-awareness.
This is one of the tasks the SSTEC should put more emphasis on especially considering that in most parts of China eco-awareness and appropriate behavior as a consequence is rather rare. Once such thinking has been established it might be easier to spread it to new residents and new constructed
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