Desert cities are the frontline of climate change. In addition to their extraordinary energy and water needs, they give us a peek at what cities across the world could eventually experience if temperatures are allowed to increase unchecked.

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Sound Space Design Architects and Desert Developments bring you an exploration of a new kind of city for the Californian desert, Essential City.  By intervening with an amalgam of existing desert cities in the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin, Essential City is a real-world manifesto for sustainable settlements that, whilst generating clean energy and food, also blend retirement living, resort-living and the kind of hospitality the greater Palm Springs Area is renown for, with the affordable housing that the area so clearly needs.

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This project is hosted on the Essential City website - click here