A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion.
Several of the world’s capital cities are planned cities, including Washington, D.C. in the United States, Canberra in Australia, Brasília in Brazil, New Delhi in India, Tehran in Iran, Abuja in Nigeria and Islamabad in Pakistan. (For others, see List of purpose-built capital cities). It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Amerindian cities.
Navi Mumbai, a planned city near Indian city of Mumbai is the largest planned township in the world.
Links
- New town – Wikipedia
- European New Town Platform
- Town and Country Planning Association (formerly the Garden Cities Association)
- The Alicia Patterson Foundation: Dissappointing New Towns of Great Britain
- Movie: New Towns in Scotland
- UK Model Villages, Garden Cities and New Towns