The Songdo City
The Songdo City Image 1_Introduction_©Songdo IBD Songdo International Business District (Songdo IBD) is a $34 billion smart and sustainable city that is setting a new benchmark for urban development. It is located in South Korea, Asia, and is built on 1500 acres of land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea. This master-planned project was started in 2001 and is the product of Gale International, together with its domestic partner, POSCO E&C, and its public sector partner, Incheon Metropolitan City. Various architects, designers, and urban planners worked on this project, but the model of a ‘smart – city’ was proposed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF). Songdo is just an hour away from Seoul and is officially part of Icheon City. The city was the result of imagining a future high-tech city where technology coexists with society. Songdo is meant to be where the future of cities takes shape, and residents, businessmen, and visitors contribute to the growing ecosystem. Songdo is supposed to b...