Island cities is a collection of ideas all bundled as one packaged ideal.
It's sort of like a new town planning ideal that incorporates many older, time tested ideas with newer ones. When a new airplane is designed some of the older general principals of aircraft construction are still used. The recently introduced Boeing 777 airplane is an example of this new design strategy. So, Island Cities, being of a new development strategy, should be viewed in this same manner. Below, are several points that make the Island Cities program particularly unique, as opposed to the current state of urban sprawl.