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This thread represents a massive can of worms for me. I refer you to an architectural competition i was involved in earlier this year, for the south korean government, that attempted to do exactly that- design a completely new city from scratch, the land reclaimed from the sea. it was 400km2. I asked on here about cycle commuting distances as my specialism within the team was infrastructure/public realm:
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread3715.html
We won the competition, joint-first with MIT. For those interested it was quite well covered by Building Design journal:
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3108110
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3122242
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=428&storycode=3128496