I don't understand why they assume Americans know about megaprojects

From Suburban Office Parks to Korean Mega-Project

...the Gale Company... principal developer of New Songdo City, a mixed-use development on reclaimed land that is part of the city of Inchon in South Korea...10-year, $20 billion project is planned to include 40 million square feet of office space, 30 million square feet of residential space, 10 million of retail space, 5 million of hotel space and 10 million of public space...first new city in the country in hundreds of years, developers say...''We did not plan to do this,'' he said. ''We got an invitation from Korea.'' ...It is no accident that Korean officials chose a New York-area developer and a New York architect to design and build Songdo, Mr. Gale said. With rising prosperity, many Koreans want to improve their lifestyles after working long hours, six days a week. ''We are not just talking bricks and sticks here,'' Mr. Gale said. ''We are doing software as well, designing in space for cultural, historic and art uses.''

Don't misunderstand me. The Gale Company is no doubt a competent and honest developer, as is their designer, Kohn Pedersen Fox. But do they have any experience in developing a new city from scratch? I would assume not. No one really does. And the Koreans are smart and capable with excellent engineers and contractors. So why do they come to the USA? Do they truly believe that Americans have some sort of special insights, skills and experience in building new cities? Heaven help them if they do. Here's a rendering from 2005. You can't really tell very much but my sense of it is not good becaue — like every other megaproject — they show it from way high-up and not from sidewalk level:

More links:

Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed

A ubiquitous city is where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings. New Songdo, located on a man-made island of nearly 1,500 acres off the Incheon coast about 40 miles from Seoul, is rising from the ground up as a U-city.

New Songdo City - Wikipedia

Gale International

Update:

Just saw this very recent video from CNN. Don't miss it. The project's chief designer says all the right things. Hope he is not just blowing smoke.