Chandigarh
Information about the planned city in India designed by Le Corbusier.
Interactionfield - Public Space in the Digital Age
Analysis and categorization of interactive media and public art projects that contribute to the rediscovery and revitalization of urban public spaces.
Kakigawa - Pools of Meaning
A project by Mirjam Struppek and Arika Adachi based on an entry in the competition "Semiotic Fields and Attractors: the rediscovery of the Kaki River in Nagaoka, Japan."
Wikipedia: New town
History and profiles of planned cities in publicly editable encyclopedia.
Charlestown at Buildout - Modeling Development and Conservation
Reports and maps from university thesis project to study growth in an area undergoing rapid residential development, and help formulate policies for growth management. Focus is the town of Charlestown in southern Rhode Island, USA.
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Information, analysis, and photographs of this archetypal postwar American suburb.
Limiting Urban Futures
An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures.
Architekturgestalten.info
Designs by Tim Ahrens and Anne Brecker.
Arcosanti
An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, workshops, events, images, visitor information.
Auroville Center for Urban Research
Presents workshops, studies, and investigations with practical implementations at the emerging city of Auroville, India.
Urban Pioneers
Presents research on urban revitalization in Berlin and Sao Paulo through writing, photographs, maps, and diagrams.
Chicago Metropolis 2020
Information about an organized effort to ensure the preeminence of the Chicago Metropolis in the 21st century. Includes an overview of the project, reports, contact information, and mailing list.
Dos Lagos
An introduction to the mixed use planned community in the City of Corona, California. Gives visitors background and up to date information about the progress of the project.
Dynamic City Foundation
Conducts research on the rapid urbanization of China. Summary, news, documents, and project timeline.
Proyecto Cities
Collective effort, focusing on some 20 cities located in five continents, to identify the competitive advantages of each, and to present the principal urban innovations that they are developing, especially those that impact on the physical form of the city and the structure of the metropolitan region.
The Irvine Company
Master plan, guiding principles, and conservation goals for development of the Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California.
Baycity Revival Redevelopment Plan
A redevelopment proposal for the waterfront of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Harmony
A residential and retirement urban design community situated between Charleston and Myrtle Beach SC near historic Georgetown, South Carolina.
The Washington, DC Comprehensive Plan
Information on the planning process, a calendar of meetings and events, a library of documents, and a community feedback program.
Letchworthgc.com
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation provides news and information about the world's first garden city. Includes a history of its development and guide.
New Songdo City
Details about the large master planned city under development near Seoul, South Korea.
Orenco Station
Promotional information about planned community in the Portland, Oregon, area. Named "America's Community of the Year" in 1998 by the National Association of Home Builders, and considered a good example of "new urbanism."
Virtual Greenbelt
Images, interviews and other materials relating to Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Phalen Corridor Initiative
A public-private partnership redeveloping a rail corridor in Saint Paul, Minnesota's East Side.
Pullman Historic District
Former industrial town now a neighborhood of Chicago. Events and program calendars, location map, and foundation activities.
Radburn
New town in Fairlawn, New Jersey designed in 1929.
Raploch Urban Regeneration Company
One of three Scottish Executive funded Pathfinder URCs, implementing a plan to transform the physical appearance of the community.
Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project
A plan focusing on issues in the Redfern Waterloo areas of New South Wales, including redevelopment opportunities, community safety, and social programs.
Scottish Borders New Ways
A partnership between public and private sector agencies who affect the future of the Scottish Borders. Encourages organizational cooperation and community development.
Seaside Florida
New urbanist coastal beach town. Accommodations, entertainment, restaurants, street map, and education.
Disney's Celebration
Essays, links, and photos about the Florida planned community developed by the Walt Disney Corporation.
Strategic Planning Action Network (SPAN)
Regional planning effort involving partners from four regions in four European Union member states. A "North-West Europe" Interreg III B inter-regional cooperation project. [in French and English]
Urban Ways
Includes a brief description of a method of providing more vegetation in high-density city centers.
Urban Revitalization Concept
Overview of the Jackson Place Redevelopment Plan in Richmond, Virginia.
Vermillion, North Carolina
New urbanist community outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Includes a tour, design principles, news, and sales information.
Victory City
A modernist utopian design for a city of the future.
Planning the Gateway
Information system for projects of regional development, spatial planning, traffic management, and cross-border cooperation in the Austrian-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian border region.
Waterfront Edinburgh Limited
A partnership between The City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian working to regenerate 140 hectares of brownfield land in north Edinburgh on the shores of the Firth of Forth.
Urban Development of Wolfsburg
The City of Wolfsburg in Germany is a typical example of planned urban development. Four different development stages are illustrated.
Life in the Model City
Personal stories about urban renewal in New Haven, Connecticut in the 1950s and 1960s.
Common Ground - Community Mapping Project
Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning.
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