Planned community

Not to be confused with Intentional community.
"New town" redirects here. For other uses, see New Town (disambiguation).
"Model city" redirects here. For the U.S. urban aid program of the 1960s and 1970s, see Model Cities Program.

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, 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 is still expanding rapidly[1]
Brasília, the capital of Brazil, was built in less than 1,000 days in the 1960s
Plan of Fredericia (Denmark) in 1900 – the city was founded in 1650

A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve organically.[2]

The term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. 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 Native American villages.[3]

A model city is a type of planned city designed to a high standard and intended as a model for others to imitate. The term was first used in 1854.[4]

  1. ^ "World's Fastest Growing Cities are in Asia and Africa". Euromonitor. 2 March 2010. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. ^ Nilsson, Leonard; Gil, Jorge (2019), D'Acci, Luca (ed.), "The Signature of Organic Urban Growth: Degree Distribution Patterns of the City's Street Network Structure", The Mathematics of Urban Morphology, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology, Springer International Publishing, pp. 93–121, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12381-9_5, ISBN 9783030123819, S2CID 133953300
  3. ^ Rosenthal, Nicolas G. (2 March 2015). "Native Americans and Cities". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.22. ISBN 9780199329175.
  4. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, October 2024, entry "model town"