Building a City from Scratch: The Story of Songdo, Korea

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What does it take to build a smart city from nothing? Or maybe the better question is, what does it take to build a smart city from nothing and make it successful? For over a decade, architects and urban planners worked hand in hand to create Songdo, a brand new business district that sought to represent South Korean advancements in technology and infrastructure. Songdo was once a model for how we would live in cities of the future- but now, the reality of what this smart city quickly became has us rethinking how the combination of technology and community might have gone wrong.

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Songdo Master Plan. Image Courtesy of Cisco
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Cite: Kaley Overstreet. "Building a City from Scratch: The Story of Songdo, Korea" 11 Jun 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/962924/building-a-city-from-scratch-the-story-of-songdo-korea> ISSN 0719-8884

Songdo Master Plan. Image Courtesy of KPF

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