planned city
Engineered urban development
A planned city is one designed comprehensively before construction, with streets, districts, and infrastructure laid out according to a unified vision rather than evolving organically over time.
Brasília, Canberra, and Washington, D.C. are examples—capitals built from scratch on selected sites.
The term sometimes carries connotations of sterility or artificiality: The planned city felt soulless compared to the old quarters of Rome.
- master planOverall strategic framework
- drawing boardFlat surface for sketching
- blank slateUnmarked starting point
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- Ebenezer HowardGarden-city movement founder
road networks · colonial towns · central plaza · transportation hubs · utopian communities · sewage systems · Islamabad · zoning laws · tabula rasa · building codes · urban planning · power grids · Brasília · architectural symmetry · suburb · grid · civic · housing
- city typescapital, metropolis, megacity, suburb, resort town
- settlementsvillage, cities, hamlet, towns, town
- capital sitenational capital, government seat, capital district, administrative center
planned cityinformal settlement
Unplanned, unofficial housing area
sprawl · medieval city · historic town · shantytown · favela