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 at which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employed

Abuja, the capital of 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 3 years 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.

The term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common during 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.

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.