The current economic conditions in many Asian countries show that it is increasingly difficult to anticipate future development, needs, or potentials with any form of precision. New wholes will have to be created from unknown and unknowable elements. Strategies that accommodate - even exploit - uncertainties must be devised.

For the Masterplan of SDNT we began not by working on an unrealistic composition of conventional urban gestures but by establishing a zoning code which uses the unique features, natural and artificial, of the site.

Currently, BIG urban operations are the ones most subject to instability while the smallest operations are the most stable; housing is the generic urban substance which you can plan. The development strategy for SDNT is to create an urban framework for an self-sustainable development with jobs and population broadly in balance, avoiding the single function conditions found in bed-towns or business parks, and the traffic burden this separation causes.

Employment is focused on industries dealing with information and communications, research and development, high technology and business.