with many strains ten times stronger than steel and a rapid growth cycle of four to five years bandra is one of most eco friendly building materials on the planet. and the middle east to engineering graduates in gaza have created an environmentally friendly break called green cake this uses coal and wood ashes a fill it instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the ground. and and guatemala one nonprofit has built a school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pile in landfills the organizations made a system out of old tires capable of holding thousands of gallons of rainwater materials like these and many paving the way for a green a probe that redefining the spaces we inhabit. singapore is a low lying island city state eighty percent of its population live in high rise public housing resulting in one of the highest population densities in the world challenges for rapid urbanization sea level rise and an increasingly chaotic climate is forcing planners and architects and cozy makers to respond to questions about how cities of the future