“Enamoured by the technologically engineered strategic visions of the likes of Stanley Gale, it confuses the needs of a city with those of a company. It mistakes people for category of user. [...] Using technology to both replace the culture of non-information industries and exercise control over the traditional spontaneity and unexpectedness of the public space, and offering in their place a city dedicated to an ‘international community’ of ‘forward-thinking individuals’ and a living standard facilitated by an integrated package of Smart solutions, Songdo has the feel of a city that remains in a state of perpetual design. It’s uncomfortable clean, way too safe, and completely predictable. It’s hyper-hygienically unnatural. It’s a technocrat’s 1950s wet dream. It’s not home. It’s not my smart.”