This is alist ofplanned 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.
Adelaide ,South Australia Canberra ,Australian Capital Territory Churchill, Victoria Eaglemont, Victoria Environa ,New South Wales – never builtGarden City, Victoria Griffith, New South Wales Inala, Queensland Springfield, Queensland Joondalup ,Western Australia Karratha , Western AustraliaLeeton, New South Wales Melbourne central business district , VictoriaMildura , VictoriaMonarto, South Australia – never builtMultifunction Polis , South Australia – never builtPalmerston, Northern Territory Yallourn , VictoriaÁgua Boa, Mato Grosso Águas de São Pedro ,São Paulo Alta Floresta ,Mato Grosso Apucarana ,Paraná Aracaju ,Sergipe Arapongas ,Paraná Ariquemes ,Rondônia Belmonte ,Santa Catarina Belo Horizonte ,Minas Gerais – inaugurated in 1897Boa Vista, Roraima Brasília ,Distrito Federal Cambé ,Paraná Cascavel ,Paraná Cataguases , Minas Gerais – most of the town's central areas were developed according to a plan, though the rest of the town has since grown randomlyChapecó ,Santa Catarina Cianorte ,Paraná Colíder ,Mato Grosso Curitiba , ParanáErechim ,Rio Grande do Sul Fordlândia – a dream ofHenry Ford , now abandonedGoiânia ,Goiás Governador Valadares , Minas Gerais (1915)Ilha Solteira , São PauloIpatinga , Minas GeraisLoanda, Paraná Londrina ,Paraná Lucas do Rio Verde ,Mato Grosso Maringá ,Paraná Naviraí ,Mato Grosso do Sul Nova Andradina ,Mato Grosso do Sul Nova Londrina ,Paraná Nova Mutum ,Mato Grosso Palmas ,Tocantins Paragominas ,Pará Paranavaí ,Paraná Petrópolis ,Rio de Janeiro Primavera do Leste ,Mato Grosso Rolândia ,Paraná Salvador, Bahia Sinop ,Mato Grosso Sorriso ,Mato Grosso Tangará da Serra ,Mato Grosso Teresina ,Piauí – inaugurated in 1852 from OeirasToledo, Paraná Três Lagoas ,Mato Grosso do Sul Umuarama ,Paraná Vilhena, Rondônia It is a misconception that virtually all cities and towns inWestern Canada , which were created after the federalDominion Lands Act Canadian Pacific Railway , Canada's first transcontinental line, or theCanadian National Railway , but this initial start generally only provided one or two streets with a few lots set out, from which the cities grew unplanned.
Batawa ,Ontario Bramalea , Ontario – now a part ofBrampton Broughton ,Nova Scotia – failedCorner Brook ,Newfoundland ,Newfoundland and Labrador Deep River , OntarioDon Mills , Ontario – now a part ofToronto Erin Mills – a planned community ofMississauga , OntarioFermont ,Quebec Gagnon , QuebecGrand Falls-Windsor ,Newfoundland Grande Cache, Alberta ,Guelph , OntarioKapuskasing , OntarioKitimat ,British Columbia Mount Royal , QuebecNew Westminster , British Columbia – designed byRichard Moody of theRoyal Engineers to be the capital of theColony of British Columbia Oromocto ,New Brunswick Pinawa ,Manitoba Thompson , ManitobaTownsend , Ontario – failedTumbler Ridge , British ColumbiaVaughan , OntarioBremerhaven ,Bremen Eisenhüttenstadt ,Brandenburg Espelkamp ,North Rhine Westphalia Freudenstadt ,Baden-Württemberg Geretsried ,Bavaria Glückstadt ,Schleswig-Holstein Hellerau ,Saxony Karlsruhe , Baden-WürttembergLudwigslust ,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mannheim , Baden-WürttembergMarienberg , SaxonyNeutraubling , BavariaPutbus , Mecklenburg-VorpommernSalzgitter ,Lower Saxony Bielefeld-Sennestadt , North Rhine Westphalia Traunreut , BavariaWaldkraiburg , BavariaWelthauptstadt Germania – a renewal ofBerlin ; never builtWilhelmshaven , Lower SaxonyWolfsburg , Lower SaxonyBandung ,West Java Pantai Indah Kapuk ,Jakarta Pantai Indah Kapuk Dua ,Banten Kota Baru Parahyangan ,West Java Alam Sutera ,Banten Citra Raya ,Banten Maja ,Banten BSD City ,Banten Kota Deltamas ,West Java Kota Jabebeka ,West Java Kota Wisata ,West Java Lippo Village ,Banten Gading Serpong ,Banten Ancient planned cities Friuli Venezia Giulia [ edit ] Arborea Campo Giavesu Carbonia Cortoghiana Fertilia Linnas Pompongias Sassu Strovina Tanca Marchesa Torrevecchia Tramariglio Villaggio Calik Planned cities All the cities inHokkaido are planned cities.
Ōshū, Iwate Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi Sendai /Izumi-ku, Sendai Tomiya, Miyagi Ōgata, Akita Tsukuba, Ibaraki Saitama City Tokyo City – old palaceEdo Chiba, Chiba Kamakura, Kanagawa Yokohama Sagamihara Nagoya Kōka, Shiga Kyoto – old palaceHeian-kyō Nagaoka-kyō Kyōtanabe, Kyoto Kuni-kyō Nara – old palaceHeijō-kyō Asuka, Yamato /Asuka-kyōTenri, Nara Sakurai, Nara Kōryō, Nara Fujiwara-kyō Fukuhara-kyō Kibi Plateau city Osaka – Naniwa-kyō Sakai, Osaka Kobe Hiroshima Fukuoka CityDazaifu, Fukuoka /Dazaifu (government) Naha, Okinawa Shuri, Okinawa Planned University Towns, Science Cities New Town Near SapporoSweden Hills Eniwa New Town Megumino Near Tokyo Near Nagoya Near Osaka Near Hiroshima 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:
Altavista de Ramos , JaliscoCancún , Quintana RooCiudad Bugambilias ,Zapopan , JaliscoCiudad Sahagún , HidalgoDelicias , ChihuahuaEnsenada, Baja California Hacienda Santa Fe ,Tlajomulco de Zúñiga , JaliscoPuerto Peñasco , SonoraFontvieille – started 1971 and finished in the early 1980sLe Portier – a district to be built in the west of FontvieilleAl Duqm – Planned new special economic city, with area of 2000 km2Towns built in the 1960s [ edit ] Towns built in the 1970s [ edit ] Cities built in the 1980s [ edit ] Cities built in the 1990s [ edit ] Cities built in the 2000s [ edit ] Cities built in the 2010s [ edit ] Falköping ,Västergötland Gothenburg , Västergötland andBohuslän [ 54] Hässleholm ,Scania Jakriborg , Scania[ 55] Karlshamn ,Blekinge (naval fortress town)Karlskrona , Blekinge (naval fortress town)Kiruna ,Lapland [ 56] Kristianstad , Scania (fortress town)Nässjö ,Småland Stockholm ,Södermanland andUppland – satellite townsThis includes all new towns created under theNew Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 . c. 68) and successive acts, as well as some communities not designated under this name.Salisbury is not listed as the chequers were part of its medieval design. Roman towns are not listed.
New communities built in theColonial and post-Colonial era [ edit ] Annapolis, Maryland Augusta, Georgia Charleston, South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina Erie, Pennsylvania Holyoke, Massachusetts Mobile, Alabama New Haven, Connecticut New Orleans ,Louisiana Paterson ,New Jersey Philadelphia ,Pennsylvania Raleigh, North Carolina Richmond, Virginia Rogersville, Tennessee Savannah, Georgia – the first planned city in America; founded in 1733Washington, D.C. Williamsburg, Virginia Wilmington, North Carolina Winston-Salem, North Carolina – planned by theMoravians ; later merged with WinstonNew communities built in the 19th century [ edit ] Amarillo, Texas Austin, Texas Back Bay – section ofBoston ,Massachusetts Brownsville, Texas Buffalo, New York Corpus Christi, Texas Dallas, Texas DuPont, Washington Fort Worth, Texas Glendale, Ohio Houston, Texas Huntington, West Virginia Indianapolis ,Indiana Llewellyn Park, New Jersey Manchester, New Hampshire Most of theManhattan borough ofNew York City ,New York – New York City originated in the 1620s without a master plan, but theCommissioners' Plan of 1811 defined the street layout for the borough north ofHouston Street . Memphis, Tennessee – a grid plan with a public promenade along theMississippi River and four designated public squares; surveyed in 1819Midland, Texas Milledgeville, Georgia New Plymouth, Idaho Parksley, Virginia Pullman ,Illinois – now part ofChicago Riverside, Illinois San Antonio, Texas Salt Lake City ,Utah Shreveport, Louisiana St. Petersburg, Florida Tallahassee, Florida Tampa, Florida Topeka, Kansas Vandergrift, Pennsylvania New communities built in the early 20th century [ edit ] Atascadero, California Avondale Estates, Georgia Baldwin Hills Village, California Cerritos, California Chatham Village, Pittsburgh Commerce, California Coral Gables, Florida Dundalk, Maryland Fairfield, Alabama Highland Park, Texas Industry, California Kingsport, Tennessee Las Vegas, Nevada Longview, Washington Mariemont, Ohio Minden, Nevada Mountain Lakes, New Jersey Radburn, New Jersey Roland Park, Baltimore ,Maryland Shaker Heights, Ohio Sugar Land, Texas Sunnyside Gardens ,New York Twin Falls, Idaho Venice, Florida The Woodlands, Texas New communities built with federal aid in the 1930s and for Defense Housing in Early 1940s [ edit ] Arthurdale, West Virginia Audubon Park, New Jersey Boulder City, Nevada Greenbelt, Maryland [ 98] Greendale, Wisconsin [ 99] Greenhills, Ohio [ 100] Henderson, Nevada Norris, Tennessee Roosevelt, New Jersey Winfield Township, New Jersey Secret cities built as part of the Manhattan Project [ edit ] TheManhattan Project was the successful effort by theU.S. government to develop anatomic bomb duringWorld War II .
Babbitt, Minnesota California City, California Cape Coral, Florida Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota Joppatowne, Maryland Levittown, New York Levittown, Pennsylvania Park Forest, Illinois Rohnert Park, California Sharpstown, Houston, Texas Silver Bay, Minnesota Willingboro, New Jersey New communities built in the 1960s and 1970s [ edit ] Anaheim Hills, California *Arcosanti, Arizona Audubon New Community, New York – nearBuffalo Aventura, Florida Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas Columbia, Maryland Cold Spring, Maryland – Baltimore [ 101] Coral Springs, Florida Coto de Caza, California Crofton, Maryland First Colony, Sugar Land, Texas – seeSugar Land, Texas Foster City, California Hawaii Kai, Hawaii Irvine, California *King City, Oregon Kingwood, Houston ,Texas La Vista, Nebraska Las Colinas ,Irving, Texas Laguna Niguel, California Mililani, Hawaii *Mission Viejo, California Palm Coast, Florida Peachtree City, Georgia Peachtree Corners, Georgia Reston, Virginia Rio Rancho, New Mexico Sugar Creek, Sugar Land, Texas – seeSugar Land, Texas Sunriver, Oregon Valley Ranch, Irving, Texas Village of Cross Keys, Maryland – seeBaltimore ,Maryland Woodhaven, Fort Worth, Texas • 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.[when?
Cedar-Riverside, Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minnesota Flower Mound, Texas – nearDallas, Texas Gananda, New York – nearRochester, New York Harbison, South Carolina – nearColumbia, South Carolina Jonathan, Minnesota – nearMinneapolis Maumelle, Arkansas – nearLittle Rock, Arkansas Newfields, Ohio – Dayton, Ohio Park Forest South, Illinois – nearChicago, Illinois Radisson, New York – nearSyracuse, New York Riverton, New York – near Rochester, New YorkRoosevelt Island ,New York – part ofNew York City Shenandoah, Georgia – nearAtlanta, Georgia Soul City, North Carolina – Warren County, North Carolina St. Charles, Maryland – Charles County, Maryland San Antonio Ranch, Texas – nearSan Antonio, Texas The Woodlands, Texas – nearHouston, Texas New communities built privately in the 1980s and 1990s [ edit ] Aliso Viejo, California Anthem, Arizona Carolina Forest, South Carolina Celebration, Florida Eagle Mountain, Utah Greatwood, Sugar Land, Texas – seeSugar Land, Texas Kapolei, Hawaii Laguna West, California New Territory, Sugar Land, Texas – seeSugar Land, Texas Phillips Ranch, California Port Liberte, New Jersey Rancho Santa Margarita, California Seaside, Florida Southern Village, North Carolina Summerlin, Nevada – in theLas Vegas Valley Suncadia, Washington Viera, Florida Westchase, Florida Weston, Florida New communities built privately in the 21st century [ edit ] Unbuilt or under construction planned cities [ edit ] Examples of unbuilt planned cities include Walt Disney'sProgress City in Florida and Frank Lloyd Wright'sBroadacre City .
The following list is organized by state:
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