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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.

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Brazil

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 CPR during construction of the 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 missions.

Chile

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Iran

Ireland

Israel

See also: Israeli settlement

Italy

Abruzzo

Apulia

  • Segezia
  • Borgo Giardinetto
  • Borgo Mezzanone
  • Siponto
  • Tavernola
  • Incoronata
  • Borgo Cervaro
  • Montegrosso
  • Ginosa Marina
  • Borgo Perrone
  • Borgo Piave
  • Borgo Grappa
  • Porto Cesareo
  • Cardigliano

Basilicata

Calabria

Campania

Emilia Romagna

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Lazio|Latium

Marche

Molise

Sardinia

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

Tuscany

Veneto

Ivory Coast

Japan

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

Middle East

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

  • Borne Sulinowo former German military base, then Soviet secret city, and since 1993 Polish town
  • Elbląg [40]
  • Głogówek [41]
  • Gdynia [42]
  • Nowa Huta (showpiece of Socialist Realist-era urban planning), now incorporated into the Royal city of Cracow
  • Starogard [43]
  • Ursynów [44]
  • Zamość A UN World Heritage site, Zamosc is the result of the opulently wealthy Polish Chancellor Jan Zamoyski's financial empire. It is modelled on Italian renaissance theories of the 'ideal city' and built by the architect Bernardo Morando. Zamość is a perfect example of late 16th century Renaissance urban planning ideals. [45]
  • Tychy Nowe Tychy, New Tychy [46]

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Serbia

Singapore

The following are not "cities" per se, but smaller developments within the nation-state of Singapore.

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Turkey

Ukraine

  • Pripyat Foundation in 1970, then the Ukrainian SSR. Abandoned in 1986.
  • Slavutych

United Kingdom

(including all New Towns under the New Towns Act of 1946 and successive Acts) See new towns in the United Kingdom.

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

United States

New communities built in the Colonial and post-Colonial era

New communities built in the nineteenth century

New communities built in the early twentieth century

New communities built with federal aid in the 1930s

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

*Both Anaheim Hills and Irvine 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 Department of Housing and Urban Development after 1970

New communities built privately in the 1980s and 1990s

Unbuilt or under construction planned cities

Venezuela

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