List of planned cities

This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Bangladesh

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Brazil

Botswana

Bulgaria

Burma

Canada

Planned cities of Eastern Canada are notable. In Western Canada, however, virtually all cities and towns created after the 1870 Dominion Lands Act (the majority of all such cities) were planned. Most were railway towns, surveyed and subdivided by the powerful railway companies. For example, both Medicine Hat, Alberta; and Swift Current, Saskatchewan, were founded by the Canadian Pacific Railway during construction of Canada's main transcontinental line. The only cities in Western Canada that grew organically were those – usually founded before 1870 – that grew up around fur-trade forts, police outposts or Christian missions.

Chile

China, People's Republic

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Ghana

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Abruzzo

Basilicata

Calabria

  • Sant'Eufemia Lamezia
  • Sibari
  • Thurio
  • Villaggio Frasso
  • Villapiana Scalo

Campania

  • Borgo Appio
  • Borgo Domitio
  • Corvinia
  • Farinia
  • Licola

Emilia Romagna

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Lazio

Lombardia

  • Milano 2
  • Milano 3

Marche

Molise

Puglia

Sardinia

  • Arborea
  • Campo Giavesu
  • Carbonia
  • Cortoghiana
  • Fertilia
  • Linnas
  • Pompongias
  • Sassu
  • Strovina
  • Tanca Marchesa
  • Torrevecchia
  • Tramariglio
  • Villaggio Calik

Tuscany

Veneto

Ivory Coast

Japan

Planned cities

All the cities in Hokkaido are planned cities.

Planned University Town,Science City
New Town
  • Near Sapporo
    • Sweden Hills
    • Eniwa New Town Megumino
  • Near Tokyo
  • Near Nagoya
    • Kozoji New Town
    • Tōkadai New Town
    • Nagaoka New Town
  • Near Osaka
  • Near Hiroshima
    • Seifu Shinto

Kazakhstan

Lithuania

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

Most Mexican cities founded during the period of New Spain were planned right from the beginning. There are historical maps showing the designs of most cities, however as time passed and the cities grew, the original planning disappeared. In recent times, a number of tourist cities have been built, such as Cancun or Puerto Peñasco; the latest city to be planned in Mexico was Delicias. Some of these cities are:

Recent times

Monaco

  • Fontvieille – started 1971 and finished in the early 1980s
  • Le Portier – a district to be built in west of Fontvieille

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

Norway

Pakistan

Palestine

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

  • Braga – 16th-century expansion
  • Lisbon – reconstruction of downtown after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Some other buildings and structures of the city survived or suffered only partial or small degree of damage.
  • Nisa – medieval town
  • Porto Covo
  • Vila Nova de Santo André
  • Vila Real de Santo António

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Serbia

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Includes all New Towns created under the New Towns Act 1946 and successive acts, as well as some communities not designated under this name.

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

United States

New communities built in the Colonial and post-Colonial era

New communities built in the 19th century

New communities built in the early-20th century

New communities built with federal aid in the 1930s and for Defense Housing in Early 1940s

Secret cities built as part of the Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was the successful effort by the U.S. government to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.

New communities built privately in the post-World War II era

New communities built in the 1960s and 1970s

*Anaheim Hills and Irvine, California; and Mililani, Hawaii, began construction in the 1970s, but have not been completed due to their size, and will not be completed for at least ten years.

New communities sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development after 1970

New communities built privately in the 1980s and 1990s

Unbuilt or under construction planned cities

Examples of unbuilt planned cities include Walt Disney's Progress City in Florida and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City.

The following list is organized by state:

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Venezuela

Yemen

References

  1. ↑ Hubbard, Ben (January 12, 2010). "Rawabi: Work Begins on First Planned Palestinian City". The Huffington Post. Retrieved August 1, 2012..
  2. ↑ Medina, Jennifer (July 30, 2012). "Big Housing Project Planned Near Shrinking Salton Sea". The New York Times.