Yoido, South Korea, Asia
Year 1969 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population 30,000 Town website Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
1969 Yoido was planned as a new down town. It is built on a small island in the Han River. It was intended to have by 1986 a daytime population of 180.000 and 30.000 resident population. source: (David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987, 119)
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