Imagine building a city for 300,000 people from scratch in just ten years. Only 45 kilometres from central Seoul a team of architects, engineers and developers have been given a rare opportunity to build a city of the future - today. At a cost of US $35 billion Songdo City is by far the largest private construction project ever undertaken anywhere in the world.
Songdo borrows from the world's great cities with Venetian inspired canals and a grand Central Park inspired by New York's. It's also the world's first green city - every building in the city is aiming for certification by the US Green Building Council's LEED scheme (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).