Masdar City (Arabic: مدينة مصدر, romanized: Madīnat Maṣdar, lit. 'Source City') is a planned city project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.Its core is being built by Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the Government of Abu Dhabi. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster and Partners, the city relies ...

Masdar (en árabe: مصدر ‘maṣdar’ ‘fuente’) es una ciudad ecológica diseñada y ubicada en el Emirato de Abu Dabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos.Estará abastecida por energía solar y su objetivo es no sólo ser sostenible sino autoabastecida. El proyecto anunciado en el 2006 es diseñado por el despacho de Foster+Partners, financiado por la WWF (Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza) y ...

Masdar (arabisch مصدر, DMG Maṣdar ‚Quelle“ oder „Ursprung‘) ist ein unterbrochenes Stadtbauprojekt in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten.Der Kern dieses Projektes ist Masdar City, eine geplante Ökostadt im Emirat Abu Dhabi, mit deren Bau im Februar 2008 begonnen wurde.Die Internationale Organisation für erneuerbare Energien (IRENA) hat dort ihren Hauptsitz.

Masdar City is located in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and was designed to be a zero-carbon city by 2016. The city is powered in part by the Masdar City 10MW Solar Power Plant, the first grid-connected renewable energy project in the UAE and the largest of its kind in the Middle East when inaugurated in 2009. An additional 1MW of ...

A verbal noun or gerundial noun is a verb form that functions as a noun. An example of a verbal noun in English is 'sacking' as in the sentence "The sacking of the city was an epochal event" (sacking is a noun formed from the verb sack).. Verbal nouns are morphologically related to non-finite verb forms, but they are not themselves non-finite verbs.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is often revised before being considered a reliable indicator. GDP (nominal) per capita does not, however, reflect differences in the cost of living …

A zero-carbon city is a goal of city planners that can be variously defined. In a narrower sense of energy production and use, a zero-carbon city is one that generates as much or more carbon-free sustainable energy as it uses. In a broader sense of managing greenhouse gas emissions, a zero-carbon city is one that reduces its carbon footprint to a minimum (ideally 0 or negative) …

Background Free Syrian Army–al-Nusra Front tensions. On 26 July 2012, FSA fighters stormed an outpost near a border crossing with Turkey in northern Syria manned by 40 foreign al-Qaeda fighters which held John Cantlie and several other journalists prisoners. The journalists escaped to the border crossing during the infighting and the al-Qaeda fighters fired at them.

Une ville intelligente (en anglais smart city) est une ville utilisant les technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) pour améliorer la qualité des services urbains ou réduire leurs coûts. D'autres termes ont été utilisés pour des concepts similaires : ville connectée, cyber ville, ville numérique, communautés électroniques.

Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام, romanized: Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام lit. Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant ...