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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.

Contents

Austria

  • St. Pölten

    • Bangladesh

  • Dhanmondi Thana
  • Gulshan Thana
  • Kawran Bazar
  • Mirpur Thana
  • Motijheel
  • Purbachal New Town  – under construction
  • Uttara Thana

    • Belgium

  • Louvain-la-Neuve
  • Scherpenheuvel

    • Belize

  • Belmopan

    • Botswana

  • Gaborone

    • Bulgaria

  • Dimitrovgrad

    • 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

  • El Salvador – mining city

    • China, People's Republic

  • Tekes County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

    • Denmark

  • Esbjerg  – replacing the Schleswig harbour towns lost by Denmark in the 1864 Second Schleswig War
  • Fredericia  – fortress town
  • Herning  – cultivation of Central Jutland moorland
  • Nordhavn  – District of Copenhagen
  • Ørestad  – District of Copenhagen

    • Djibouti

  • Al Noor City – twin city to one of the same name in Yemen

    • Ghana

  • Tema

    • Iraq

  • Bagdhad

    • Marche

  • Metaurilia

    • Molise

  • Nuova Cliternia

    • Veneto

  • Candiana

    • Ivory Coast

  • Yamoussoukro

    • Kazakhstan

  • Astana

    • Mexico

    Most Mexican cities founded during the period of New Spain were planned 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. A number of tourist cities have recently been built, such as Cancun or Puerto Peñasco; the latest city to be planned in Mexico was Delicias. Some of these cities are:

    Myanmar

  • Naypyidaw

    • New Zealand

  • Pegasus Town
  • Turangi
  • Twizel

    • Nigeria

  • Abuja

    • Norway

  • Nordstern – planned by occupying Nazi officials in Norway; never built

    • Palestine

  • Rawabi – construction began in January 2010

    • Qatar

  • Lusail

    • Cities built in the 1960s

  • Chai Chee
  • MacPherson
  • Queenstown
  • Tiong Bahru
  • Toa Payoh

    • Cities built in the 1990s

  • Choa Chu Kang
  • Jurong West (Pioneer)
  • Sembawang
  • Sengkang

    • Cities built in the 2000s

  • Marina Bay
  • Punggol

    • Cities built in the 2010s

  • Bidadari
  • Punggol Northshore
  • Simpang
  • Tampines North
  • Tengah

    • Switzerland

  • La Chaux-de-Fonds

    • Taiwan

  • Zhongxing New Village, Nantou County

    • Turkey

  • Ankara
  • Atça
  • Erzincan
  • Miletus

    • United Kingdom

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

    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 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 built privately in the 21st century

  • Ave Maria, Florida
  • Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
  • Lakewood Ranch, Florida
  • Nocatee, Florida

    • 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:

    Venezuela

  • Ciudad Guayana

    • Yemen

  • Al Noor City – twin city to one of the same name in Djibouti

    • References

    List of planned cities Wikipedia
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