page_title: Planned community
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Planned community / North America and the Caribbean / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Original 1819 plan of Memphis, believed to be the 1820 engraving made in Baltimore, assigned the date 1819 by the Tennessee Archives, Nashville.
context_page_description: A planned community, planned city, or planned town is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc and organic fashion.
  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.
caption: The original plan for Memphis, Tennessee, as surveyed in 1819
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