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Seongnam, South Korea, Asia |
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Seongnam new town basically developed as a refugee camp for the relocated population from the cleared urban squatter areas in central Seoul. The city decided to solve the squatter problems by constructing a new town across the city boundary. The plans were announced in 1968. The plan contained a grandiose blueprint for the building of a new city of a million population in the location south of Seoul, within five years. Two moths later, the plan had shrunk to the building of half a million population within three years on a 8.25 square kilometer site. When the actual construction started the plan further shrank to a town of 320.000 population. Seongnam was planned as suburban satellite town with its own industrial base and commercial, recreational and educational facilities.
source: (David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987, 115) |
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