Imagine a skyscraper that — instead of hosting offices — houses a system that purifies the water of a polluted river, employs the people living in surrounding slums and gives them a home in which to live.That’s the revolutionary idea behind an architectural concept that aims to solve the problems generated by the polluted Ciliwung River in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. Imagine again if every city had one!
Here is the link to an article about it on the CNN website.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/05/jakarta.skyscraper.ciliwung/index.html
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