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Students from Tongji Uni. win vertical city design competition
Last Updated: 2014-07-11 09:33 | Xinhua
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A team of students from China's Tongji University won the first prize in an international competition to design vertical cities, organizers said on Thursday.

The 19 participating teams in the Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition, from 10 universities in Asia, Europe and America, were asked to put forward holistic and integrated urban planning and design solutions for a parcel of land of 1 square kilometer in Mumbai with a population of 100,000.

The theme for this year's competition is "everyone connects," with a focus on connecting residents to amenities such as clean energy, clean water, fresh air, efficient transportation, and facilities for work, live, learn and play.

The proposal put forward by the students from Tongji University, which is known for its strength in architecture and construction researches, is called osmosis, named after the process in which water moves from a higher concentration to a lower concentration, often with a membrane.

Now in its fourth year, the vertical cities design competition seeks to "address the problems of urban sprawl, congestion and pollution faced by Asia's overcrowded cities," organizers said.

The competition was organized by the National University of Singapore and sponsored by the World Future Foundation, a Singapore-based philanthropic organization led by Chinese entrepreneur Feng Lun.

"In the last four years, many fresh ideas and exciting solutions have emerged from this competition. It is through such initiatives that we stimulate the discovery of new models of sustainable urban living to address critical problems that the world today faces," Feng said.

The competition, held each year since 2010, has participating teams from universities such as the National University of Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tongji University, Tsinghua University, the University of Tokyo, the Delft University of Technology, ETH Zurich, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.

The theme for the competition last year was urban agriculture.

The World Future Foundation also set up a PhD Prize in Environmental and Sustainability Research, with 50 PhD candidate winners from the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University since 2009.

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