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Asian American: Songdo Chosen As Home of UN's Green Climate Fund Goldsea. The South Korean port city of Incheon has been chosen over other cities around the world to host the headquarters of the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The future site of the GCF was decided Saturday by a vote of its 24 board members at a meeting held in Incheon’s Songdo district . Their selection of Songdo as GCF’s first headquarters will become official at the end of November when it is endorsed at the 18th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Qatar. Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Mexico and Namibia had all vied to host GCF, an entity often referred to as the World Bank of the environmental sector.

GCF’s first full year of operation will be 2020. By that time it is expected to be funded at $100 billion. “The GCF organization will steadily expand in the future and it will have more and more affiliated groups as well,” President Lee Myung-bak told the press Saturday. “I think it’s a blessing for the Korean people,” Lee added. Incheon to House 200,000 Foreigners by 2020. By Do Je-hae Staff Reporter INCHEON ― The major seaport city of Incheon is eager to demonstrate to the world that it is a global city of economic and cultural vigor through the ``Visit Incheon 2009'' campaign.

Mayor Ahn Sang-soo, 63, said that Incheon will see 20 million visitors by 2014. Aerotropolis: The Airport-Based Global City of Tomorrow. How cities are good for science, and vice versa. Living on a platform. Clark Green City masterplan out by Q1 2013. Spectral Songdo: Imagining Songdo IBD through (im)Material Culture, or Anthropological Experiments on the Virtual Frontier. 317296469.pdf (application/pdf Object) EkblawJohnsonMalyak_A COMPARISON OF ECO-CITY TYPOLOGIES.pdf (application/pdf Object) HBS, New Songdo Case.pdf (application/pdf Object) Goldsmiths Seminar: Songdo International City: Psycho-Geography and the Global Business Utopia. Book Review: Aerotropolis. Aerotropolis:The Way We'll Live NextBy John D.

Kasarda and Greg LindsayFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pp, $30 If only Ryan Bingham had read Aerotropolis. Perhaps then the corporate hatchet man, portrayed by George Clooney in Up in the Air, would understand the global forces keeping his lost soul aloft—and relocate to a fledgling city in Asia. A collaboration between John D. Kasarda, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, and Greg Lindsay, a journalist who has written for publications including this one, the business-cum-sociology tome describes how the airborne movement is reshaping business and urban life from Chicago to Shenzhen and almost certainly redefining our future.

SOUTH KOREA: Difficult decisions face branch campuses. Even as a number of foreign universities wait in the wings to set up new branch campuses in South Korea, one in six of the country's existing 200 universities could be shut down or merged under a wide-reaching government overhaul of the higher education sector.

Details of the government's restructuring plan emerging in the last two weeks, coupled with a projected dramatic drop in Korean student numbers, has meant that foreign branch campuses will be setting up at a difficult time. In particular the Songdo Global University Campus in Korea's Incheon Free Economic Zone is hoping to attract at least half a dozen foreign universities. America's State University of New York at Stonybrook and George Mason University in Virginia, and Ghent University in Belgium, plan to set up in Korea within the next two years. "We have some target student numbers. Bloggers. Sim City: Inside South Korea's $35 Billion Plan to Build a City from Scratch. Sixty-three floors up, the view is stunning.

Below, Central Park's lawns, bike lanes, kids boating in the lake. To my right, apartments and shops lining a canal. New Songdo City. As one of the many coursework’s I have undertaken for the ‘Sustainability in Civil Engineering’ module of my masters, the CEEQUAL analysis was certainly one of the most enlightening.

CEEQUAL, or Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment and Award Scheme (think they may have to work on that acronym) provides participating developers or clients with an assessment and subsequent award with regard to their sustainability credentials for a specific project. With the aim of driving up environmental and social awareness of developments, CEEQUAL works in a similar way to a BREEAM assessment, though perhaps on a broader basis. The assessment itself is split into twelve separate sections, each containing a number of questions which the assessor must award points or scope out where relevant.

The tally of these points for each section are then displayed graphically, and pitted against the potential points available to highlight shortcomings. A Visit to Incheon, South Korea's New Songdo City: Green City of the Future? - Green Flow. New Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea Back from Incheon, South Korea, where the partially contructed New Songdo City district is rising up as an acclaimed example of the world's first ubiquitious technology city, and the first Korean "new city" planned with green features.

Ground was broken for Songdo in 2004. Completion is scheduled for 2014, when about 65,000 residents are expected to live locally and 300,000 workers are anticipated. Visit of New Songdo International City in Korea. General info. 도약하는 서해안] 송도 국제업무단지 주요 시설. ◇컨벤션센터 ‘컨벤시아’=최첨단의 오디오 및 비디오 시설을 갖추고 최상의 연회 서비스 국제회의와 박람회를 지원한다.

지난 2005년 3월 착공해 현재 90.19%(2월말 기준)의 공정률을 보이고 있다. 2008년 완공 후 인천시에 기부채납 된다. 지하 1층 지상 4층 규모이며 약 9,900㎡(3,000평)의 무주(無柱)공간을 구현 할 컨벤션센터는 뛰어난 건축 미학과 구조를 선보이게 된다. ◇더 ？？ 퍼스트 월드 주상복합=컨벤션센터 옆에 있는 ‘더 ？？ 퍼스트 월드’는 포스코가 건설하고 있는 주상복합 아파트로 64층 규모의 타워형 건물 4개 동과 판상형 8개 동으로 구성돼 있다. ◇동북아트레이드 타워=동북아트레이드타워는 지난해 2월 착공 후 현재 23%(2008년 2월 기준) 공정률을 보이고 있다. 1층부터 33층까지는 다국적 기업 및 금융기관 등이 입주할 사무실, 유명패션 브랜드의 상점 등의 상업시설이 들어서며 34층부터 64층까지는 200개 이상의 객실을 갖춘 장기숙박호텔과 호텔 부대시설이 만들어진다.

◇송도국제학교=송도국제학교는 지난 2005년에 제정된 ‘경제자유구역 및 제주국제자유도시의 외국교육기관 설립 운영에 관한 특별법에 따라 설립되는 국내 최초의 국제학교로 7만1,404㎡(2만1,600평)에 1,700억원을 들여 건설되는 최고의 시설물로 현재 약 41.62%의 공정률을 보이고 있다. ◇중앙공원 및 편의시설=송도국제업무단지의 허파역할을 하게 될 중앙공원은 총 개발면적의 약 10%에 달하는 40만㎡의 광대한 규모를 자랑한다. ◇골프클럽=‘황금 곰’잭 니클로스의 국내 유일 시그니쳐 골프장인 잭 니클로스 골프 클럽은 지난해 4월 잭 니클로스가 직접 참석한 가운데 명명식을 가졌다. 92만5,624㎡ 규모로 18홀의 골프코스와 매력적인 클럽하우스, 골프실습 및 교육센터 등이 들어설 예정이다. ‘분양의 무덤’ 송도…국제업무단지는 다를까 : 경제일반 : 경제. 등록 : 2011.11.22 20:35 수정 : 2011.11.22 20:35.

Songdo: betting on the green instant-city. Situated 65 km West from Seoul, Songdo, the greenest business hub in the world, should be completed by 2015. According to Gale International, the developer, green “instant-cities” are the answer to the frenetic urbanization taking place in developing countries. Songdo International Development. Foto: Gale International. The Songdo International Business District project, expected to cost about 35 billion dollars, is one of the most expensive development projects ever undertaken in the world. Built on 1500 acres of reclaimed land, this Free Economic Zone is meant to become a major business hub between Japan, China and South Korea. New Songdo City, South Korea.

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Pollock, AIA These days, plans for creating entire cities from the ground up do not surprise us, but South Korea’s New Songdo City (NSC) does. It has a clear purpose to attract foreign investment; it has an ideal geographic location near Seoul’s Incheon International Airport; and its design champions innovation and sustainability in accordance with LEED standards. The first foreign real estate acquisition in Korea, this massive project is a joint venture between POSCO E & C, the South Korean steel giant’s construction division, and the U.S. developer Gale International, which appointed the New York firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to spearhead the design.

Future City - Songdo Central Park - Korea,Nation to Watch.FreeEndlessInfo. City of the future.You might have seen such cities in movies,it is no dream it is real.Why we call it as future city? It targeted to get green energy with is available in nature and non pollution energy.Equipped with new technologies and comfort.It has everything.The new city being built in Incheon, west of Seoul. Songdo is the largest private real estate venture in history.The majority of the money is comming from American private real estate firm Gale international and investment bank Morgan Stanley.Their investment is in part being made inorder to create an internet of things using this internet not only links people but also objects such as cars and homes.As the city has been constructed telecommunication gaint CISCO has embeded sensors in city roads,streets and buildings.Eash of this sensors constantly sending datas to central hub about power demans,traffic conditions,as well as external and internal temperatures will be collected and analysed.

Related links: 20091019 CNN Songdo. Real estate lotteries, bidding wars, and tax audits in New Songdo. The Prau is a mixed-use office-apartment building going up in the New Songdo free economic zone in South Korea. The instant smart city being built by Gale International, Cisco and other partners. Kolon construction is another of the partner firms involved in New Songdo and has built one of the most fiercely speculated on residential towers in the last couple of years. One of the unique things about the Korean real estate market is the lottery.

Due to intense population demands and real estate speculation most affordable housing, or price stabilized housing is handed out using a lottery system. Korea’s Songdo International Business District – One of Asia’s Largest Green Developments – Surpasses Milestone of 13 Million Square Feet of LEED Certified Space. NEW YORK, N.Y. and INCHEON, South Korea – June 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Songdo International Business District (IBD) today announced that it has achieved a total of 13.7 million square feet of LEED certified space, establishing itself as one of the world’s most ambitious LEED developments. Songdo IBD, a 1,500-acre new city on the coast of Incheon, South Korea, is setting new standards for sustainable urban development in South Korea and Asia. Songdo IBD is being developed by NSIC, a joint venture between New York developer Gale International and Korean construction firm POSCO E&C, under the governance of the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority.

The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building program is the foremost program for the design, construction and operation of green buildings. The 13.7 million SF figure represents nine projects within Songdo IBD that have set firsts in both Korea and Asia. GCF success makes Songdo global star city. By Kim Rahn, Kim Tae-jong The selection of Songdo, Incheon, as the location for the secretariat of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is expected to have a sweeping impact on the city’s profile, not to mention bringing economic benefits. Officials of Incheon, which governs Songdo International Business District, said Sunday that the size, influence and status of the GCF is much larger and higher than other international organizations which have been located in Korea so far. “With the GCF secretariat, Incheon and Songdo will emerge as the center for international environment activities and environmentally-friendly technology,” a city official said.

Can Songdo Attract More International Agencies? The Songdo international business district in the port city of Incheon has been chosen as the headquarters of the secretariat of the UN Green Climate Fund. Songdo beat Bonn, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland in a secret vote by the GCF board on Saturday. The GCF is a UN agency that collects donations from advanced nations and uses the money to help developing countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. In 2020, the GCF aims to collect more than US$100 billion a year. New Songdo City: Atlantis of the Far East - Asia - World. Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News. Songdo City defies crisis odds By David McNeill SEOUL - Take a man-made island, roughly the size of London's Hampstead Heath. Songdo city South Korea Green, Interconnected Metropolis 2020 - South Korean News. Songdo touted as green, foreigner-friendly city-The Korea Herald. Songdo International City is 20 minutes away from Incheon International Airport and only 28 kilometers away from the capital Seoul.

Transportation is well developed and convenient as its trains, subways and highways are well connected with other regions. Environment Magazine - May-June 2011. By Yekang Ko, Derek K. Song Do (Songdo) Tidal Flats. Songdo in South Korea leading charge to become city of the future. If you want a model city, fix the one you've got. Cisco's Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch. Stan Gale is exultant. What happens when a green city has telepresence in every home? Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed. The Rise of the First Smart Cities. Five routes to the future. Arirang News. 송도 국제업무단지(IBD) 송도국제업무단지. Smart+Connected Communities - Industry Solutions. Cisco. Cities of the Future: Songdo, South Korea - Episode 1. Cisco Smart+Connected Residential Solution Video. Home. Master Plan. LEED.