Abstract
The chapter offers observations on what makes a technopolis sustainable, and how a technopolis contributes to the sustainability of society outside the technopolis’ boundaries. Each technopolis project must attend to sustainability in the scientific/engineering arena, in the social arena, and in the arena of environment and the triple bottom line. The chapter offers criticism of common concepts of sustainability, suggesting that technopolis designers and scientists are well positioned to sharpen our views and practices regarding sustainability.
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TIME magazine March 23, 2009: “At Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park, home to many of the island's flagship tech firms, most workers are taking unpaid leave at least one day a week. Ryan Wu, chief operating officer of the job-search website 1111 Job Bank, say conditions at Hsinchu have never been so dire. ‘There’s extreme panic right now’, Wu says”.
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These two leaders were, respectively, Pike Powers and Jim Ronay .
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Section. 4 up to this footnote marker is verbatim from Phillips (2008a, b).
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Apologies to any 8-year-olds who may read this chapter.
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Phillips, F. (2014). Toward a Sustainable Technopolis. In: Oh, DS., Phillips, F. (eds) Technopolis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5508-9_9
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