Thanks to Brandon Fuller at Charter Cities for spotting Greg Lindsay's piece in Fast Company on Creating Cities From Scratch about New Songdo, a purpose-built international city in South Korea..."It's going to be a cool city, a smart city. We start from here and then we are going to build 20 new cities like this one, using this blueprint. Green! Growth! Export!" [...] "China alone needs 500 cities the size of New Songdo," [...] 500 New Songdos at the very least. One hundred of those will each house a million or more transplanted peasants. In fact, while humanity has been building cities for 9,000 years, that was apparently just a warm-up for the next 40. As of now, we're officially an urban species. More than half of us -- 3.3 billion people -- live in a city. Our numbers are projected to nearly double by 2050, adding roughly a New Songdo a day; the United Nations predicts the vast majority will flood smaller cities in Africa and Asia."Yes! We need smart, green, vital and responsive cities! See here simulation of New Songdo districts and phases of development...
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