Engineers and urban planners can attest to the difficulties they face in seeking approval for new buildings or for developments encompassing a city block. Consider, then, the enormous challenge of persuading South Korean authorities to grant permission for an international consortium to build a city on reclaimed land near Incheon (Inch'on) International Airport about 35 km southwest of Seoul. That was the situation facing a group led by the architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC (kpf), of New York City and London; the Gale Company, of New York City; and the South Korean firm posco e&c. The consortium is planning to build New Songdo City, a $25-billion undertaking that will be the first international joint venture in real estate development in South Korea, in as little as 8 to 10 years. The city will have about 50,000 permanent residents, and the office space to be constructed there will accommodate roughly 50,000 workers.
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机译：工程师和城市规划人员可以证明他们在寻求批准新建筑或围绕城市街区的开发项目时遇到的困难。那么，请考虑说服说服韩国当局批准国际财团在首尔西南约35公里处的仁川（仁川）国际机场附近的开垦土地上建设城市的巨大挑战。这就是纽约和伦敦的建筑公司Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC（kpf）领导的小组所面临的情况；纽约市的大风公司；以及韩国posco e＆c公司。该财团正计划建设新松岛市，这项耗资250亿美元的工程将在短短8至10年内成为韩国第一家国际房地产开发合资企业。这个城市将有大约50,000名永久居民，并且在那里要建造的办公空间将容纳大约50,000名工人。
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