What if you were able to build a city from scratch with current technologies, new ideas and a fresh way of organizing space, transportation and information?
The South Korean city of Songdo is slowly emerging from virgin land to do just that.
Along with the new buildings is an infrastructure that completely rethinks city systems and how we relate to the urban environment. Pneumatic trash chutes, underground parking, planned for walking and biking, integral grey water irrigation, communications and sensors gathering information everywhere. Songdo will be a highly connected living city that will benefit from a few decades of sustainable thinking that has never had the chance to be installed as basic services integrated into the fabric of the city from day one. More than exciting, this will be a living laboratory for how these types of systems perform, and it will go a long way towards convincing other cities to adopt these new technologies. Assuming, of course, that everything works as advertised...
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