# Planned cities

Planned cities are settlements that are carefully planned from their inception. They are typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

## Destinations
### Africa

* 9.0555567.4913891 Abuja
* -25.74638928.1880562 Pretoria

### Asia

* 51.13333371.4333333 Astana
* 33.69888973.0369444 Islamabad
* 35.011611135.7681115 Kyoto
* 19.747596.1156 Naypyidaw
* 2.93101.697 Putrajaya
* 14.65121.04758 Quezon City
* 6.979.9163899 Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte

#### India

* 20.26444485.82805610 Bhubaneswar
* 30.73527876.79111111 Chandigarh
* 23.22372.6512 Gandhinagar
* Kolkata (22.5888.4213 Bidhannagar, 22.589488.474814 New Town)
* 19.0373.0115 Navi Mumbai
* 28.61388977.20888916 New Delhi

### Europe

* 54.517518.5417 Gdynia — planned port city built from scratch in interwar Poland, full of modernist buildings from the era.
* 48.8566672.35222218 Paris — while the city has a long history as unplanned settlement, modern Paris is result of complete demolition of former cramped medieval neighbourhoods and significant reconstruction of entire city to a modern standard in mid-19th century, also known as Hausmann's renovation.
* 40.75055614.48972219 Pompeii — the ancient Roman city, is like various other Roman cities in having a grid throughout most of its area.
* 59.9530.31666720 Saint Petersburg — new capital of Russia founded in early 18th century by Peter the Great on land newly conquered from Sweden as a 'window on Europe' with lots of huge French-influenced neoclassical buildings and wide boulevards meant to impress western guests
* 52.42305610.78722221 Wolfsburg — factory town and headquarters of car manufacturer Volkswagen. After World War II, it produced the famous Volkswagen Beetle.
* 40.18138944.51444422 Yerevan — Armenia's capital as it exists today is regarded widely regarded as one of the best surviving examples of an early Soviet planned city, having been laid out on a plan by the architect Alexander Tamanian.

### North America

* 21.161416-86.82481123 Cancun — Cancun did not exist in 1970 when the federal tourism ministry (FONATUR) began exploring the idea of creating a tourism utopia of Caribbean beaches lined with modern hotels. The city was designed with tourism infrastructure concentrated on a strip of barrier beach supported by a city for locals designed around the concept of supermanzanas built up of manzanas. Supermanzanas are essentially self-contained neighborhood units while manzanas are essentially what blocks are in other cities.
* 40.728333-73.99416724 Manhattan — The City of New York, which then consisted of Manhattan only, introduced a street grid plan in 1811 for streets from 14th to the Washington Heights neighborhood uptown. The grid starts with 1st Street just north of Houston Street, but only on the East Side; the West Village does not have a grid, so it is only starting at 14th Street that there is a consistent grid across the entire island, with a few notable exceptions such as the preexisting course of Broadway. Manhattan's grid is certainly not the first, but it was nevertheless an important achievement that set the stage for the next two centuries of orderly development and navigation through the city's streets.
* 45.424722-75.69525 Ottawa
* 38.895-77.03666726 Washington, D.C. — The purpose-built capital of the United States, initially laid out on a diamond-shaped plan on both banks of the Potomac River, on land that was ceded by the states of Maryland and Virginia. The portion on the west bank of the Potomac River was returned to Virginia in 1847, but it is still effectively part of the D.C. metropolitan area, and home to The Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery.

### Oceania

* -34.9275138.627 Adelaide — Built on a plan by Colonel William Light, Adelaide is known for its orderly grid system in the city centre and North Adelaide, and the surrounding parklands that separate them from each other and from the other suburbs.
* -35.293056149.12694428 Canberra — The purpose-built national capital of Australia, with its layout designed by the American husband-and-wife pair of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.

### South America

* -15.793889-47.88277829 Brasília
* -34.933333-57.9530 La Plata

## See also

* Suburbs