eco village, definition of

An Eco Village is usually a planned development of a set of properties which have a combined low environmental impact. Either implemented by a developer or by a set of individuals. The resultant properties can range from being very traditional to totally unique depending on planning requirements and available resources.

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  Water channel restoration is only one of the plans underway to turn a former coal power plant into Canada's most sustainable 15-minute community in Mississauga...
• Lessons from Schoonschip, Amsterdam's floating eco-village
  How can people live in harmony with global warming and rising water levels? In Amsterdam, a group of forward-thinking people decided to go with the flow. Schoonschip, a self-sustaining floating community of more than 100 residents, boasts innovative technology...
• 2022 Asian Games Park in Hangzhou is sustainably designed for legacy use
  When New York-based architecture firm Archi-Tectonics won an international design competition to masterplan the Hangzhou Asian Games Park for the 2022 Asian Games — the largest international multi-sports competition after the Olympics — the architects...

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