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Brasília, the capital city of Brazil, is a planned city

A new town, planned community, or planned city is a kind of city that is designed by architects and engineers before it is built. Most cities and towns just develop over the years, without a clear plan. Planned community neighborhoods are designed with separate districts of the city for parks, stores, homes, and offices. Planned communities have a transportation system for commuters.

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  • Partizanske4

    Partizánske/Baťovany in Slovakia – an example of a typical planned industrial city founded in 1938 together with a shoemaking factory in which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employed

  • Abuja, Federal Capital Territory 3

    Abuja, in Nigeria, which was built mainly in the 1980s, was the fastest growing city in the world between 2000 and 2010, with an increase of 139.7%, and still expanding rapidly

  • Brasilia aerea eixo monumental

    Brasília, the capital of Brazil, was built in less than one thousand days in the 1960s

  • -Fredericia 1900

    Plan of Fredericia (Denmark) in 1900 – the city was founded in 1650

  • COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De stad Batavia TMnr 3728-537

    Batavia, circa 1780.

  • COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Luchtfoto van het Ministerie van Openbare Werken TMnr 10015224

    Bandung laid as a well-planned city, set as the new capital of the Dutch East Indies back in the 1920s.

  • Sadraa CUT 1

    Sadra a planned city near Shiraz

  • Blueprint Negev planned community

    A planned community in the Negev

  • Abu dhabi skylines 2014

    Abu Dhabi

  • Daidairi of Heiankyo

    Kyoto was built on a grid system, starting in 794.

  • Butterfly Estate 1

    Southern Castle Peak, Part of Tuen Mun New Town, developed from the 1970s onward

  • Songdo IBD Incheon 2014 HDR 2

    Songdo in South Korea

  • New town smart city-1-kolkata-India

    New Town, Kolkata

  • Navi Mumbai Skyline

    Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Seventh Avenue, Islamabad

    Islamabad, Pakistan

  • Cinta muraria di Palmanova

    Palmanova, Italy, founded in the 16th century.

  • NovoLisice

    The graphical scheme of the Detailed Urbanist Plan for a settlement within the Municipality of Aerodrom within the City of Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia.

  • Stare Miasto w Zamościu

    Zamość

  • Ansamblu urban, centrul comercial al orașului – Blocuri de locuit, vedere de ansamblu

    Panorama of Onești, 1965. Multiple new towns, such as this one, were mainly built near old small villages in Romania.

  • All Saints church, Milton Keynes Village - geograph.org.uk - 728891

    The village of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England gave its name to the new city that incorporates it, which grew rapidly from 1967 onwards

  • Memphis Plan 1819

    The original plan for Memphis, Tennessee, as surveyed in 1819

  • La Plata desde el aire

    La Plata from the air.

  • Streetmap of Adelaide and North Adelaide

    Adelaide's planned town grids were surrounded by parkland and intersected by the River Torrens

  • HOD1

    A reconstruction of Robert Hoddle's original plans for Melbourne's central grid which defined the early township and today's city centre

  • Inner-canberra 01MJC

    Inner Canberra demonstrates some aspects of the Griffin plan, in particular the Parliamentary Triangle

See also

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