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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.

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AfghanistanEdit

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ArgentinaEdit

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AustraliaEdit

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AustriaEdit

BEdit

BangladeshEdit

BelarusEdit

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BelgiumEdit

BelizeEdit

BotswanaEdit

BrazilEdit

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BulgariaEdit

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CanadaEdit

It is a misconception that virtually all cities and towns in Western Canada, which were created after the federal Dominion Lands Act of 1870, (the majority of all such cities), were planned. Most of these were, indeed, railway towns, founded after surveying and planning by the powerful railway companies during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada's first transcontinental line, or the Canadian 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.

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ChileEdit

ChinaEdit

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Czech RepublicEdit

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D – FEdit

DenmarkEdit

DjiboutiEdit

EgyptEdit

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Under ConstructionEdit

Pre ModernEdit

  • Memphis, Egypt – The city and capital of ancient Egypt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Heracleion – A city built in the 12th century B.C.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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EstoniaEdit

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FinlandEdit

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FranceEdit

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GermanyEdit

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GhanaEdit

GreeceEdit

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Hong KongEdit

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HungaryEdit

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IndiaEdit

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IndonesiaEdit

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JavaEdit

Borneo/KalimantanEdit

Celebes/SulawesiEdit

Riau IslandsEdit

PapuaEdit

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IranEdit

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Ancient planned cities

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IrelandEdit

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IsraelEdit

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ItalyEdit

AbruzzoEdit

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BasilicataEdit

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CalabriaEdit

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CampaniaEdit

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Emilia RomagnaEdit

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Friuli Venezia GiuliaEdit

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LazioEdit

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LombardiaEdit

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MarcheEdit

  • Metaurilia

MoliseEdit

  • Nuova Cliternia

PugliaEdit

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SardiniaEdit

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

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SicilyEdit

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TuscanyEdit

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VenetoEdit

Ivory CoastEdit

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JapanEdit

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Planned cities

All the cities in Hokkaido are planned cities.

Planned University Towns, Science Cities
New Town

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KazakhstanEdit

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KenyaEdit

LebanonEdit

LithuaniaEdit

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MalaysiaEdit

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MaltaEdit

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MexicoEdit

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:

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Recent timesEdit

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MonacoEdit

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MyanmarEdit

NetherlandsEdit

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  • Dronten<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Emmeloord<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Emmen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New ZealandEdit

NigeriaEdit

North KoreaEdit

  • Pyongyang - vast parts of the city were planned and rebuilt following the Korean War.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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NorwayEdit

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OmanEdit

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PakistanEdit

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PalestineEdit

PhilippinesEdit

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  • Baguio
  • General Santos
  • Koronadal
  • Manila — Planned according to the Laws of the Indies during the Spanish Colonial Period. Towns and parishes surrounding Spanish Manila (Intramuros) grew following the contour of the Pasig River or organically. By the late 19th century, this town and parishes were absorbed to create the modern-day city of Manila planned by American architect Daniel Burnham. However, his plan was never fully realized because of the outbreak of World War II. There are six circumferential roads and ten radial roads in Metro Manila with the City of Manila as its axis (focal center).
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PolandEdit

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  • Gdynia<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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PortugalEdit

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QatarEdit

RomaniaEdit

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RussiaEdit

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Saudi ArabiaEdit

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SerbiaEdit

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SingaporeEdit

Towns built in the 1960sEdit

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Cities built in the 1980sEdit

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Cities built in the 1990sEdit

Cities built in the 2000sEdit

Cities built in the 2010sEdit

SlovakiaEdit

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SloveniaEdit

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South AfricaEdit

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South KoreaEdit

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SpainEdit

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TaiwanEdit

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TajikistanEdit

TurkeyEdit

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UkraineEdit

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United KingdomEdit

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ScotlandEdit

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New communities built in the Colonial and post-Colonial eraEdit

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New communities built in the 19th centuryEdit

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New communities built in the early 20th centuryEdit

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New communities built with federal aid in the 1930s and for Defense Housing in Early 1940sEdit

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New communities built in the 1960s and 1970sEdit

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Unbuilt or under construction planned citiesEdit

Examples of unbuilt planned cities include Walt Disney's Progress City in Florida and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City.

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VenezuelaEdit

YemenEdit

VietnamEdit

formerly Thủ Đức District, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City and District 2, Ho Chi Minh City

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