Planned community
detailed developed land
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.
Planned 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), Washington, D.C. in the United States, the modern parts of Astana in Kazakhstan, and Ankara in Turkey. In Indonesia, Nusantara was planned to be inaugurated on 17 August 2024, and in Egypt a new capital city (to the east of Cairo) is under construction. Putrajaya, the federal administrative and judicial centre of Malaysia, is also a planned city.
The public source identifies “Planned community” as detailed developed land. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Planned, community and detailed.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1074523. The Library of Congress control number is sh88002049. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1854 and 2024.
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