The offices, shopping centres and homes of the future should be clean and green. Buildings should incorporate innovative and intelligent design to keep energy use to a minimum.
Ursula Eicker, the CITYNET Project Coordinator, at Stuttgart's University of Applied Sciences is an expert in energy efficient building design:
"Today already more than half of the population lives in cities, and that will increase, which means cities and energy consumption is a central theme of the future," she said.