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
New towns in the United Kingdom
The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 and later acts to relocate populations in poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War. They were developed in three waves. Later developments included the expanded towns: existing towns which were substantially expanded to accommodate what was called the "overspill" population from densely populated areas of deprivation.
Welwyn Garden City, one of the two Garden Cities that was later designated a New Town
The town of Telford (formerly Dawley New Town) was created from a number of towns which were joined around a central service area.
Telford Centre
New Town architecture in Peterborough
