At first glance it's a major drag. It's such a big issue! How can anyone have any impact on it? An obvious solution would involve lots of pollution-cleansing and sound-mitigation screens, to the point where you feel reassured and secure. Well, if living machines can transform waste water, and community gardens can unite all walks of life in the goal of nurturing, maybe individuals can do their bit. And maybe it can be a beautiful bit.
"Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, motor vehicle exhaust, gasoline vapors, and chemical solvents are some of the major sources of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. Nitrogen dioxide is the main component in ground level smog and produced by combustion or heat in buses, cars, truck engines from the gasoline and diesel fuel...Car or truck engines that are idling during peak traffic hours releases twice as many exhaust fumes than other vehicles in motion because there are lesser amounts of intake air. The chemical and exhaust emission levels from cars and trucks result in the formation of nitrogen dioxides and hydrocarbons from the incomplete burning of gas and diesel fuels during combustion."
(from Applied Ozone Systems website, http://www.appliedozone.com/smog_buster.html)
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This is something that has been worrying me a lot too. I think we need to as a group think of some solutions and then branch off from there. I really believe that prior to designing any hospital in this context, we need to consider a solution for this issue as the truth is, any of our concepts can only be hindered by this environment....maybe we need to find some solutions involving the collection of the expelled air directing it elsewhere, instead of letting it gather with all the other fumes from the city and settle ON TOP of our hospital...
Came across this a few months ago that might be interesting (not as nice to look at as a garden though I'd imagine!)
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/cities-that-clean-themselves.html
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