The convention center may well become Songdo's signature for its arching, multipeaked structure that evokes Sydney's opera house.

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Rome wasn't built in a day, and New Songdo City won't be complete until 2014, at the earliest.

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Songdo is being pitched as a digitally linked and model green city.

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Projects like the Songdo International Business District near Incheon, South Korea, are testing grounds for the latest in green technologies.

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Hard to fathom, too, that behind this megaproject is a little-known Manhattan developer called Gale International, with a 70% stake in Songdo.

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Because the land underneath Songdo didn't exist, the government of Incheon dumped 110 million cubic yards of dredged sand and mountain rubble into the Yellow Sea.

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Another goal: to make Songdo the largest so-called ubiquitous city, where wireless networks and radio-frequency identification will link all information systems--every laptop, stoplight, cell phone, TV and toaster.

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The road to Songdo ran through the International Monetary Fund.

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Songdo will be one of the world's greenest cities.

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Helping with introductions was Christine Todd Whitman, the onetime New Jersey governor and chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, who sits on the Songdo International Advisory Board and is a director at United Technologies.

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Gale has never attempted anything like Songdo.

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