Instant City
Songdo City, South Korea
Gale/Cisco
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Songdo IBD boasts the wide boulevards of Paris, a 100-acre Central Park reminiscent of New York City, a system of pocket parks similar to those in Savannah, a modern canal system inspired by Venice and convention center architecture redolent of the famed Sydney Opera House.
The resistance of distances finally ceased, the world’s expanse will lay down its arms, once known as duration, extension, and horizon…
- Paul Virilio, Open Sky
Cisco wires Songdo in South Korea, a ‘city-in-a-box’ for 1 million inhabitants. Delivered instantaneously with a completely ‘wired’ infrastructure.