IGCSE Geography / Urban environments

Case study: Masdar City revision notes

Edexcel International GCSE Geography (4GE1), chapter 6: Urban environments, specification point 6.3b, CS6. Part of the full course.

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Masdar City is a planned city in the UAE, designed to make urban living more sustainable. Its clean-energy features work, but by 2023 it was only about a quarter built and had far fewer residents than planned.

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