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RSS Feeds`The next era of human progress`: what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?
(The Guardian South Korea)

 
 

8 july 2019 07:10:27

 
`The next era of human progress`: what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?
(The Guardian South Korea)
 


The urge to build cities from scratch is not new - but this time they are being conceived by private multinational corporations as gilt-edged tax-exempt gated communitiesAt 8.30 every morning, an announcement is piped though a speaker in the ceiling of Kim Jong-wonīs apartment, barking the daily bulletin in a high-pitched voice. The disembodied broadcaster details new parking measures, issues with the pneumatic waste disposal chute and various building maintenance jobs to be carried out that day.`Thereīs no way of turning it off,` sighs Kimīs wife, Jung-sim, as she prepares breakfast. `I hate technology but my husband is an early adopter. He has to have everything first.`The bristling glass towers of these new urban enclaves are the inverted mineshafts of todayScores of new cities are rising across the world from previously untouched desert and jungle, or on land `reclaimed` from the sea. While the history of cities built from scratch is long, the scale of the current epidemic is beyond anything seen before. These new cities are not for rural-urban migrants. They are instruments to attract international investment and make the urban rich even richer Continue reading...


 
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