Comments on: future of urban mega cities? http://younghee.com/2008/02/10/future-of-urban-mega-cities/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:52:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Younghee Jung http://younghee.com/2008/02/10/future-of-urban-mega-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Younghee Jung Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:37:01 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/02/10/future-of-urban-mega-cities/#comment-324 nyuudo - thanks for the link, it will be a good read! nyuudo – thanks for the link, it will be a good read!

]]> By: nyuudo http://younghee.com/2008/02/10/future-of-urban-mega-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-302 nyuudo Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:20:50 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/02/10/future-of-urban-mega-cities/#comment-302 It's hard to imagine if is possible to some places like Rio de Janeiro or Ghana to transform their environment into something that big corporations wouldn't like or don't satisfy their profits... As far as I can see those places are too divided and conquered by "survival lifestyle" more than "convenient lifestyle"... but you know, mankind is unpredictable (hope to be in a good way). As you pointed... Seoul now is a big machine of redevelopment schemes that seems to be welcomed by citizens and it looks like Korea's people worked real hard to feel in a better place nowadays avoiding old mistakes, then losing contact with nature is a minor threat to their lifestyles. "...because they were too peaceful, and too bored." A convenient and attractive megacity could look like Masdaruae? http://www.masdaruae.com/ It’s hard to imagine if is possible to some places like Rio de Janeiro or Ghana to transform their environment into something that big corporations wouldn’t like or don’t satisfy their profits… As far as I can see those places are too divided and conquered by “survival lifestyle” more than “convenient lifestyle”… but you know, mankind is unpredictable (hope to be in a good way).

As you pointed… Seoul now is a big machine of redevelopment schemes that seems to be welcomed by citizens and it looks like Korea’s people worked real hard to feel in a better place nowadays avoiding old mistakes, then losing contact with nature is a minor threat to their lifestyles.
“…because they were too peaceful, and too bored.”

A convenient and attractive megacity could look like Masdaruae?
http://www.masdaruae.com/

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