Comparison

Borneo and Hammarby are both real urban planning project and they have both been constructed. Metacity Datatown is not a real project, it is more a assumption for the future urban space.
Thus, similarities and differnces can be found only at Borneo and Hammarby and cannot be compared with Metacity.
Borneo and Hammarby have a significant impact at national as well as worldwide planning future.
They are planning projects which dealt with the real issues and opportunities of their area. They both dealt with the regeneration of an existing, abandoned or where only ex-dockyards landfields or boatyards exist. Issues, that needed to be solved are ownership and other legal issues before and after the construction.
Then, issues like density, whose will inhabit the urban space, how much will be the public space, public facilities that are needed to be provided or the character that the urban space, are needed to be decided during the design progress.
For all these issues, local and international architects are invited to propose a solution. However, the local goverment had a significant role during the planning, checking, planning and dealing with parts where more than two sides was needed to be involved.
In order to create an attractive urban space, after the main masterplan design, both project were divided into sections and shared among different architects who needed to provide a design for each section.
They are totaly designed into the very last detail, designing apart from the building types, zones, access, parking areas, street wide, the street furniture, lighting etc.
Borneo and Hammarby designed as urban spaces, bringing the urban layout, the urban measurements of street lenght and width into the regenerated area. They also tried to be inspired by elements of the local area, combining the urban with the suburban character.
The housing sector is essential at both projects. The invited architects or the architectural teams needed to provide different design, giving to the urban space the sence of the individuality and also making the area easily orientated. However. the public spaces and the facilities are not in the same level at both projects. Borneo seems that failed to provide the appropriate facilities , local market, and green spaces, where on Hammarby open areas that provide public realm and facilities are designed more carefully.
As it is obvious nothing is mentioned about Metacity. Metacity is only a theoretical piece of work for the future, It is however a very good example of how data can be treated in the urban design and how this can lead into physical urban design.