Green Cities & Planned Communities: The Future of Real Estate

In the current landscape for real estate, as pollution and climate change becomes an increasing and alarming concern among society, it is necessary to seek ways to make our cities greener and more sustainable. 

There are several methods that can help cities achieve less pollution and gas emissions, like garbage disposal, recycling and implementing carbon-free energy generating technologies.

Nonetheless, as we’ve discussed before, one of the biggest industries in play is precisely the Real Estate Sector. Which is why, planning for greener cities, must include prioritizing Planned Communities and Sustainable Communities in their growth. 

Taking into consideration that by 2050, it is expected that 70% of the world’s population will live in urbanized areas, it’s why creating and living in a Planned Community is more important than ever. 

These are some of the benefits a Planned Community has for a city and its residents, in terms of Sustainability

1. Higher Quality of Life

The first and foremost benefit that a Planned Community has, it’s the higher quality of life that it offers its residents.

Because Planned Communities are designed under a vision for communities, rather than individualized necessities; they provide the landscape for close groups to form and contribute to their community, making it a safe place to live, with benefits both environmentally and socially. 

In a Planned Community you’ll usually find:

• Better and cleaner air quality: Their designs are made for sustainability, which is why large green areas and open spaces are always prioritized, and allow for a healthy outdoors lifestyle. Green spaces produce cleaner air, which results in better health conditions for its residents. 
• Shared amenities and spaces: Because they are designed to reduces carbon dioxide emissions, waste and consumerism overall; in a Planned Community you’ll always find common spaces for everyone’s use, that save up resources like energy, light, water, and many others; and that allow you to follow your daily routine without having to spend more or transport yourself any other place.
• Close-knit communities: Because of the shared spaces and outdoor healthy life of a Planned Community; they tend to create the ideal environment for close groups to be formed, giving its residents a very rich and quality social life, as well as a healthy life.

2. Better management of resources

Planned Communities are another type of sustainable real estate construction or breen building, so naturally, they are built to save up resource’s waste as much as possible, and also to be able to create their own energy. 

A Planned Community, as its name states, allows developers to plan ahead for the need of the community, in terms of resources, they can take into account how much resources are going to be needed, how can the regulate them efficiently, how to recycle as much as possible, and how to implement from the very start, ways to create green and clean energy. 

This is why, in Sustainable Real Estate like Planned Communities, you’ll usually find interactive-grid systems where energy is created on-site and reused throughout the development over and over; using natural resources, like solar energy with solar panels, as well as other methods like water treatment and electric infrastructure.

3. Quality Infrastructure

One of the main objectives of Sustainable Real Estate is to build homes that last decades; contrary to the common practice of building quickly for temporary purposes. 

Taking into consideration that most of the pollution that Real Estate produces, is precisely in demolitions or discarded properties, which wastes resources as well as energy; it’s essential for the Real Estate Market to start building having in mind quality, not for years, but for decades. 

A benefit for both the environment and the resident; because it will reduce waste in the long-term, and it will provide communities with high quality infrastructure, houses and commons spaces. 

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Sources: Private Communities, The Green Hub, KHov, Pueblo de Oro