City in a Future Tense: The Making of a Smart City in South Korea

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Songdo, South Korea, is one of the earliest and most ambitious smart city projects. Mythical narratives have painted it as a promised land of the future where the problems and struggles of the present have been efficiently transcended-or concealed-by technology. In City in a Future Tense, Chamee Yang interrogates these myths ...