Eco-cities in their infancy

Sustainable development, eco-friendly construction, green solutions... buzzwords that now seem to crop up everywhere in the mission statements of developers. They are, in fact, helping to ensure that projects live up to these ideals – by encouraging guidelines from the top (such as at the European level) to be followed. But developers are also embracing green building for strategic reasons. Developers are increasingly having to adjust to the green strategies adopted by different cities. And, mainly when it comes to cities in the CEE region, herein lies the problem. Green policy in the region’s cities is in fact a little obscure. But this does not mean that it does not exist. It exists, but is focused on specific projects. Developers still have to navigate through a maze of rules and regulations that are often hidden away in a variety of directives, laws, regulations and zoning plans. Where is the green policy?Which legal acts can affect the projects implemented by develope