Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides.
Rebuilding of various epochs in the bastide of Monpazier has preserved the market square couverts of the first planning.
The Aquitan Design of a Bastide
The Gascon Design of a Bastide
Aigues-Mortes Walls
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.
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
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
