The New Sustainable City as a Mirage
Cities Are Long, While City Plans Are Brief
As it turns out, cities have a longer lifespan than many other man-made fields including states and systems. Despite the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, founded by Romulus and Remus, it legacy lives on. Hanyang, founded as the new capital of the Yi Dynasty, is now the capital of Korea and one of the most impressive metropolitan destinations in the world. Relying on cities endure across the centuries, the notion of the Anthropocene has entered academic discourse, creating states and systems, developing a science, technology, and economy of the anthropocene, and supporting the lives of its communities and individuals.
In Korea, urban design and development began in earnest with the Ansan New Town in 1977, devising a cluster of structures in an industrial production area, Gwacheon New Town in 1979 was created to house administrative functions, and large urban management plans took hold in the mid-1980s under the thrall of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In 1989, the five 1st Generation New Towns began to develop motivated by the goal of supplying 2 million new houses. With the ongoing construction of 2nd Generation New Towns from the 2000s to the 3rd Generation New Towns releasing their plans now, we have been responsible for the development of many large public housing sites, urban renewal, and the development of new towns. Over the last 40 years, the towns, though not always perfect, have served as places to live, work, rest, and play.
In spite of our efforts thus far, it is almost impossible to
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