The Rise of the Instant City
ASIA INFRASTRUCTURE
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The rise of the instant city
By Ben Thompson
It must have been an interesting first site visit for Stan Gale, Chairman of US-based construction firm Gale International and the brains behind the ambitious New Songdo IBD development, when he originally came to Korea back in 2000. As the helicopter swooped down over the proposed site and his hosts gesticulated excitedly to where the megaproject was expected to take shape - residential units here, business district there, a huge recreational park in the centre flanked by a university campus, convention facilities and the country's tallest building - one fact was inescapable: the parcel of land set aside for this grand vision was not actually land at all. It was an open expanse of water.
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