Seongnam, South Korea, Asia
Year 1968 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population 320,000 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
Seongnam new town basically developed as a refugee camp for the relocated population from the cleared urban squatter areas in central Seoul. The city decided to solve the squatter problems by constructing a new town across the city boundary. The plans were announced in 1968. The plan contained a grandiose blueprint for the building of a new city of a million population in the location south of Seoul, within five years. Two moths later, the plan had shrunk to the building of half a million population within three years on a 8.25 square kilometer site. When the actual construction started the plan further shrank to a town of 320.000 population. Seongnam was planned as suburban satellite town with its own industrial base and commercial, recreational and educational facilities. source: (David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987, 115)
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