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The city of Pittsburgh can become the precedent in the next step towards a “green” world.

The goal in today’s architectural design is to create the perfect sustainable building. This perfection can be defined as such: the occupants are all happy, the systems are smartly and completely integrated, and there is a maximum use for passive strategies. This perfection may be achieved differently according to various factors like the solar orientation, the climate, and amount of funding.

Pittsburgh can be the definitive test to a new system of sustainable methods. It is essentially a building block solution to how make new and old places the most ecologically friendly. With the construction of a sustainable catalogue, the city can be transformed by understanding the circumstances in the situation and allowing the system to generate the most proper means of attack. Within this system, various factors are acknowledged, such as the current economic prosperity, the type of climate/weather the area undergoes, the types of materials locally available, and the social context. The ultimate aim of the plan is to develop and suggest the most viable strategies that are easily afforded by the chosen environment. In essence, it’s a form of automation to the growth of a city, with its goal being the most environment friendly city possible. With the system a success in Pittsburgh, there will be an allowance to try different areas of the world. Each new city attempted will be using the same “catalog” as the Pittsburgh model, since the catalog will have allowances for the range of circumstances that will be encountered. With this extensive catalog in use, the world can become a better, more environmentally friendly place.