29/10/2019
Location | Songdo, Incheon, South Korea
Songdo City is a planned 'smart city' built on 6 sq.km of artificial land just 65 km west of Seoul, South Korea's Capital City. Songdo is one of South Korea's answers to the urban development of business district like the ones in Dubai and Shanghai. It is moreover one of the largest private real estate development ever done in history. The city includes high-rise buildings, architectural hallmarks such as a copy of the Central Park and Venice's waterway, 40% green area, bike and walking paths. It is a smart city due to its tunnel vacuum waste system (and thus no trash trucks are seen), complies to LEED requirements, gets its energy from a local heating facility, and places emphasis on alternative transportation to privatised vehicular movement. The city is an example of an Low-Carbon Green Growth city, as introduced by the former president Lee Myung Bak who saw a need for more sustainable development across the entire country.
How many sustainable cities do you know about, and how sustainable are they actually?
#송도 #한국 #도시 #도시계획
