Moscow Agglomeration Competition Unveils Sustainable Master Plans for the City of the Future

Moscow authorities recently announced the results of the <a href="http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;upload_id=20680" target="_blank">Moscow Agglomeration Competition</a> for the Moscow metropolitan area. The 3-stage international competition called for <a href="http://inhabitat.com/hok-and-woods-bagot%E2%80%99s-langfang-eco-smart-city-master-plan-wins-aia-urban-design-award/" target="_blank">master plan designs</a> for the city that include the existing city development and the design of new city districts (Federal City, Innovation City, Logistics City and Science City). Entrants responded with ambitious urban planning proposals that include massive green belts, high-speed transportation systems and zero-waste, zero-emission buidlings - read on for a closer look!

Antoine Grumbach &amp; Associes suggested a plan that would consist of the main city, a green protective belt up to 15km wide and a belt of satellite cities organized at a 100km distance of each other.

The building sites will be concentrated in the west of the metropolitan area with a long-term settlement planned to be built in the east.

The New Moscow City is due to be completed in 2020 and is planned to provide housing to some 550,000 people.

The constellation of 8 “gateway cities” will connect the center with the periphery of the agglomeration.

The Moscow Region will encompass the existing city and four new districts (Federal City, Innovation City, Logistics City and Science City).

The city will be a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/summer-streets-car-free-days-in-nyc/" target="_blank">car-free zone</a>, with a personal rapid transit pods infrastructure instead and a mass transit metro system which will connect it to the outside world.

Vacuum waste recovery systems will be employed to mitigate the need for collection at neighbourhood level.

Recycled rainwater and greywater will be re-used for irrigation and toilet flushing.

The design aims to become the world’s first <a href="http://inhabitat.com/vincent-callebauts-zero-carbon-biotic-arch-is-a-gnarly-self-sufficient-skyscraper/" target="_blank">zero-carbon</a>, zero-waste and zero-contaminated water capital located on the outskirts of Moscow.