Mountain city, water city: A conceptual design for Chongqing Yuelai Eco-city

Nowadays, Chongqing is rushing into modernization and urbanization as the window of the Chinese West Development, causing a bad destroy on its ecological environment. It is important for urban designers and planners to explore an eco-designing method for Chongqing's development in order to cope with a conflict between urbanization and energy crisis as well as to solve ecological environmental problems with the City sprawling. This paper illustrates a conceptual planning design of Chongqing Yuelai Eco-city made by HITSGSS, in which the importance of water to the Eco-city has been concerned. An idea of using the water resources to fertilize the Eco-city in the mountain area has been proposed via examining the geographical and morphological characteristics of the planned area. With respect to the nature mountain and the river, the design is focused on ecological conservation and low carbon development through integrating water element into the planning scheme. In addition, the possibility of using the city waste to generate clean electricity has also been explored. In a word, this paper presents a design scheme of Yuelai Eco-city in Chongqing, which explores ecological approaches for low carbon emission and energy savings in building environmental friendly and social wellbeing societies.