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A district of Incheon, South Korea, built from 2003 on roughly 53 square kilometres of land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea, and for a decade the world's most-photographed "smart city".
37.4, 126.6 · approximate · reclamation and construction from 2003; still building as of 2026
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- A place in: Future Cities · 14 places
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- is comparable to of NEOM — Both are state-backed new-build projects justified by an economic role their location did not previously have.
- comparable to Brasília — Both were designed whole and both were occupied differently from the way they were drawn.
- constrained by Agglomeration — Housing was delivered on schedule while the international business cluster the district was built for did not form.
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