ABSTRACT

Two of the most extraordinary attempts to create a techno-city for the late twentieth century are just about to take shape, in 1993, on two of the worlds least likely sites. One is on a flat island in the Guadalquivir river, next to the ancient city of Seville, a major trade and cultural center of the European Renaissance. The MFP, therefore, is a logical extension of the strategy Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and other government agencies have followed in Japan during the 1980s in the form of technopoles, teletopia and similar programs. The MFP, as Australians almost immediately initialized it, is Australian in location but Japanese in name, Japanese in origin, and, perhaps, peculiarly Japanese in its entire basic concept. In short order, an MFP-Adelaide Management Board came into being; it ordered yet another feasibility study, this time of the Adelaide site.