Gale International event for New Songdo City, Korea.
"New Songdo, a free-enterprise zone where English will be the lingua franca, is often called the largest private real-estate development in the world. When completed in 2014, it is estimated that this $25 billion project will be home to 65,000 people and that 300,000 will work there."
-NY times
Like George Pullman's eponymous town built in the 1880s, New Songdo is an idealized expression of the values and desires emanating from the dominant forms of political economy at the time. New Songdo fuses the techno-fetishism of the "ubiquitous city" with a full embrace of the major components of globalization: free-markets, linguistic homgenization, and rhetorical promotion of "sustainability."
- Newurbanist.blogspot.com
