List of planned cities

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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

Adelaide - South Australia
Canberra - Australian Capital Territory, designed by Walter Burley Griffin.
Churchill - Victoria
Eaglemont - Victoria, designed by Walter Burley Griffin.
Leeton - New South Wales, designed by Walter Burley Griffin
Mildura - Victoria
Garden City - Victoria
Griffith - New South Wales, designed by Walter Burley Griffin.
Inala - Queensland
Monarto - South Australia (never built)
Yallourn - Victoria

Austria

St. Pölten

Belarus

Novopolotsk (plan developed in 1958)
Soligorsk (construction began in 1958)

Belgium

Louvain-la-Neuve

Belize

Belmopan

Brazil

Aracaju
Belmonte, Santa Catarina
Belo Horizonte (inaugurated in 1897)
Boa Vista, Roraima
Brasília
Canarana
Cataguases -- most of the town's central areas were developed according to a plan, though the rest of the town has since grown randomly.
Curitiba
Erechim
Goiânia
Governador Valadares
Ilha Solteira
Londrina
Maringá
Palmas
Rio de Contas
Sinop
Sorriso
Teresina

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 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.

Batawa, Ontario
Bramalea, Ontario, now a part of Brampton, Ontario
Broughton, Nova Scotia (failed)
Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Deep River, Ontario
Don Mills, Ontario, now a part of Toronto
Erin Mills, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland
Kapuskasing, Ontario
Mount Royal, Quebec
New Westminster, British Columbia, designed by Richard Clements Moody of the Royal Engineers to be the capital of the Colony of British Columbia.
Oromocto, New Brunswick
Pinawa, Manitoba
Thompson, Manitoba
Townsend, Ontario (failed)
Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
Vaughan, Ontario

China, People's Republic of

Mainland China

Xi'an

Hong Kong

Côte d'Ivoire

Yamoussoukro

Czech Republic

Zlín

Denmark

Ørestad

Finland

France

Near Paris:

Near Lille: Villeneuve d'Ascq
Near Lyon: Isle d'Abeau
Near Marseille: Rives de l'Etang de Berre
Near Rouen: Val de Reuil

Germany

Hungary

India

Bhubaneshwar
Bidhannagar a town near to Kolkata (in fact nearer to the airport)
Chandigarh
Dispur
Gandhinagar
Jamshedpur, named after its founder Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata
K.K.Nagar (a suburb in Chennai (Madras))
Navi Mumbai (New Mumbai) a satellite city of Mumbai
New Delhi
New Town (Rajarhat) , Kolkata
NOIDA
Panchkula

Iran

Ireland

Adamstown
Shannon Town (Clare)

Israel

Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Veneto

Candiana

Emilia Romagna

Tuscany

Marche

Metaurilia

Latium

Abruzzo

Molise

Nuova Cliternia

Campania

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

Sardinia

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

Japan

Near Tokyo

Near Nagoya

Kozoji New Town

Near Osaka

Senri New Town

Near Hiroshima

Seifu Shinto

Kyoto
Sapporo
Tsukuba Science City
Shin'kyo (now known as Changchun; capital of the puppet government of Manchukuo, regained by China after World War II)

Kazakhstan

Astana

Lithuania

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Pegasus Town

Nigeria

Abuja

Pakistan, Indus Valley Civilization

Poland

Borne Sulinowo former German military base, then Soviet secret city, and since 1993 Polish town
Elbląg
Głogówek
Gdynia
Nowa Huta (showpiece of Socialist Realist-era urban planning), now incorporated into the Royal city of Cracow
Starogard
Ursynów
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.
Tychy Nowe Tychy, New Tychy

Portugal

Vila Nova de Santo André

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah City (currently under development)
Prince Abdul Aziz bin Musaed Economic City (also currently under development)

Serbia

Singapore

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

Slovakia

Petržalka

Slovenia

South Korea

Ansan
Changwon
Gwacheon
Sejong City (proposed multifunctional administrative city)

Spain

Sweden

Kiruna
Stockholm (satellite towns)

Switzerland

La Chaux-de-Fonds

Taiwan

Jhongsing Village

Turkey

Miletus

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

Annapolis, Maryland
Augusta, Georgia
Columbia, South Carolina
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Mobile, Alabama
New Haven, Connecticut - the first planned city in America, designed in 1638.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Raleigh, North Carolina
Rogersville, Tennessee
Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Salem was planned by the Moravians, later merged with Winston
Savannah, Georgia
Washington, DC

New Communities built in the Nineteenth century

Austin, Texas
Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts
DuPont, Washington
Greensboro, North Carolina
Glendale, Ohio
Indianapolis, Indiana
Llewellyn Park, New Jersey
Most of Manhattan, New York City, New York. (A grid plan in the early 19th century defined the street layout of most of the borough; however, New York originated in the 1620s without a master plan. Since the grid plan is noteworthy, it is listed here.)
Memphis, Tennessee
Parksley, Virginia
Pullman, Illinois (now part of Chicago)
Riverside, Illinois
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tallahassee, Florida

New Communities built in the early Twentieth century

New Communities built with Federal aid during the New Deal

Secret Cities built by the Manhattan Project during World War II

New Communities built privately in the post World War II era

New Communities built privately or with state-aid from the 1960s and 1970s

* Both Anaheim Hills and Irvine began construction in the 1970's, 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

Cedar-Riverside, Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Flower Mound, Texas (Near Dallas, Texas)
Gananda, New York (Near Rochester, New York)
Harbison, South Carolina (Near Columbia, South Carolina)
Jonathan, Minnesota (Near Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Maumelle, Arkansas (Near Little Rock, Arkansas)
Newfields, Ohio (Dayton, Ohio)
Park Forest South, Illinois (Near Chicago)
Radisson, New York (Near Syracuse, New York)
Riverton, New York (Near Rochester, New York)
Roosevelt Island, New York (New York, New York)
Shenandoah, Georgia (Near Atlanta, Georgia)
Soul City, North Carolina (Warren County, North Carolina)
St. Charles, Maryland (Charles County, Maryland)
San Antonio Ranch, Texas (near San Antonio, Texas)
The Woodlands, Texas (near Houston, Texas)

New Communities built privately in the 1980s and 1990s

Unbuilt or under construction planned cities

Venezuela

Ciudad Guayana

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