NEW YORK: A waterfront district has been heralded as a model of sustainable urban development, a place where one can already glimpse the future of city living.
This newly built, eco-conscious neighbourhood had previously been home to landfills and industry, dense with factories and office buildings. But then a plan was conceived to build housing for athletes as part of an ultimately unsuccessful Olympic bid in the 1990s, and the area was soon transforming.
“We had started this with great ambitions, and we just kept going with the project,” said…