Changwon, South Korea, Asia
Year 1977 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population 300,000 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
Developed in 1977 near the Changwon Heavy Machine Industrial Complex. It was designed to provide housing as well as other urban services for residents, the majority of whom are employees of the complex or the families of employees. It was intended that Changwon New Town will house 300.000 by 1986. It was developed by the Industrial Estate Development Corporation. source: David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987,120)
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