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Concept
Planned community
Summary
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 in a more organic fashion.
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.
List of purpose-built national capitals
A planned capital is a city specially planned, designed and built to be a capital. Several of the world's national capitals are planned capitals, including Canberra in Australia, Brasília in Brazil, Belmopan in Belize, New Delhi in India, Abuja in Nigeria, Islamabad in Pakistan, Naypyidaw in Myanmar (Burma) and Washington, D.C. in the United States, and the modern parts of Astana in Kazakhstan and Ankara in Turkey. In Egypt, a new capital city east of Cairo is under construction. The federal administrative and judicial centre of Malaysia, Putrajaya, is also a planned city.
Abu Dhabi (UAE) and some of the recently built cities in the Persian Gulf region are also planned cities.
Sejong was constructed to be a planned-administrative capital of South Korea.
The city of Gaborone was planned and constructed in the 1960s.
Company Towns
During the construction of the Suez Canal in the 1860s, and after, new towns were planned and built to serve the new international shipping canal. Other smaller company towns were built during the 20th Century to serve oil exploration sites and factories. The larger towns have since been incorporated into mainstream local government.
Port Fuad – Port Said Governorate.
Port Tewfik – Suez Governorate
Ismailia – Ismailia Governorate
Ras Ghareb – Red Sea
Mosta'maret al-Mahallah – Gahrbia
Kima – Aswan
Sahary – Aswan
Mosta'maret al-Sad – Aswan
New Urban Communities
In the late 1970s, it became national policy to construct new desert towns in Egypt, managed by the New Urban Communities Authority.
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