Urban planners have to start incorporating electricity-generating wind turbines into their development plans, says Ted Stathopoulos. The professor of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University's Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science believes cities can generate substantial amounts of energy by integrating their design into new structures. According to Stathopoulos, cities have the option of building self-supporting wind farms directly on their territory, retrofitting old buildings with new turbines or incorporating turbines into the architectural plans of new buildings at the design stage, before construction begins.
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