"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 in which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employedAbuja, 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[1]Brasília, the capital of Brazil, was built in less than 3 years in the 1960sPlan 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.[2]
^Nilsson, Leonard; Gil, Jorge (2019), D'Acci, Luca (ed.), "The Signature of Organic Urban Growth: Degree Distribution Patterns of the City's Street Network Structure", The Mathematics of Urban Morphology, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology, Springer International Publishing, pp. 93–121, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12381-9_5, ISBN9783030123819, S2CID133953300