Download or read book The Ubiquitous-Eco-City of Songdo: An Urban Systems Perspective on South Korea's Green City Approach written by Paul D. Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Since the 1980s, within the broader context of studies on smart cities, there has been a growing body of academic research on networked cities and "computable cities" by authors including Manuel Castells (Castells, 1989; Castells & Cardoso, 2005), William Mitchell (1995), Michael Batty (2005, 2013), and Rob Kitchin (2011). Over the last decade, governments in Asia have displayed an appetite and commitment to construct large scale city developments from scratch - one of the most infamous being the smart entrepreneurial city of Songdo, South Korea. Using Songdo as a case study, this paper will examine, from an urban systems perspective, some of the challenges of using a green-city model led by networked technology. More specifically, this study intends to add to the growing body of smart city literature by using an external global event - the global financial crisis in 2008 - to reveal what is missing from the smart city narrative in Songdo. The paper will use the definition of an ur