Planned community

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.

"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.

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.

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