It is interesting that new towns are being developed in India & China . Although Africa has potential there are issues on jobs and purchasing power coming in the way of development .Unlike the West in India people are setting up new towns to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and in search for peace. Paradoxically, many of the new cities under development in Asia have been initiated and designed by Western firms. Contemporary offices like KCAP and Kuiper Compagnons from the Netherlands, Atkins, Foster, and HOK from the UK, GMP from Germany, and offices like SOM and KPF from the US, take up an enormous number of the jobs being offered by the most recent wave of New Towns built between Saudi Arabia and Korea, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines. Has Western planning become endemic in the East, just like so many other technologies originating in the West?
This article provides a few answers
http://volumeproject.org/2013/03/why-build-a-new-town/
This article provides a few answers
http://volumeproject.org/2013/03/why-build-a-new-town/
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