Songdo
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Songdo is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 12, 2021 and April 14, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “a similar problem in South Korea’s planned city of Songdo”; “Songdo, a South Korean charter city”; “Songdo, a South Korean charter city which now has 50,000 people”. It most often appears alongside China, Marginal Revolution, A Whirlwind Tour Of Ethereum Finance.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 12, 2021
- Last seen: April 14, 2021
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3: I’ve complained before about how everyone uses the same example - Brasilia - when they talk about how central planning can go bad. As a public service, I offer these people this article about a similar problem in South Korea’s planned city of Songdo.
Tom Murcott was an investment officer for Songdo, a South Korean charter city which now has 50,000 people, a thousand-foot-tall skyscraper, the headquarters of the UN’s Green Climate Fund, and a pneumatic waste disposal system - instead of leaving cans out for the garbage truck, you throw your trash directly into pressurized tubes that suck it to the recycling center or incinerator.
Inline links: directly into pressurized tubes