How South Korea Built a City Out of The Sea
Smart Cities VideoSummary
As the global population continues to rise, so does the demand for places to live in cities. Instead of overcrowding established cities, one solution is to create brand new ones using modern urban planning techniques. One example of a city still in its infancy is Songdo in South Korea. At a cost of over $40 billion, Songdo was built from scratch on reclaimed land. Songdo’s design borrowed well-known elements from other cities such as the wide boulevards of Paris and New York’s Central Park. The highly efficient Smart City has the latest technological innovations present within it and has been designed with an open, green feel throughout the city. On the other hand, the city has been accused of being pricey, soulless, and generic in nature and there are worries that it could turn into yet another modern ghost town. Whether Songdo is a technological marvel, or a money-making vanity project is yet to be decided. However, Songdo is modern in every sense of the word and is a blueprint for other areas seeking similar developments, learn more below.