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  TimesPeople recommended an article:

  Sep 26, 2010

  In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises

  Promoters of Masdar, a city under construction near Abu Dhabi, say that it will be the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

"And yet Masdar seems like the fulfillment of that idea. Ever since the notion that thoughtful planning could improve the lot of humankind died out, sometime in the 1970s, both the megarich and the educated middle classes have increasingly found solace by walling themselves off inside a variety of mini-utopias.
This has involved not only the proliferation of suburban gated communities, but also the transformation of city centers in places like Paris and New York into playgrounds for tourists and the rich. Masdar is the culmination of this trend: a self-sufficient society, lifted on a pedestal and outside the reach of most of the world’s citizens."

The place is a monastery.  It will have a abbot or it will be a theme park.