New Cities!

[Pascu Andreea]

Does anyone know a city/town designed, built from scratch and developed in the last 10-15 years?!

[Roland Beinert]

There’s Masdar City, although it’s not entirely built yet. I think there’s also quite a few in China.

[Pascu Andreea]

Thank you. I’ll check it out.

[Abdul Hakim Kussim]

Putra Jaya in Malaysia

[Kody Smith]

Baldwin Park.  Orlando, FL.  New Urbanist community but view as separate town/city.

[Tanya Olson]

This town in Kansas rebuilt ‘green’ after it was completely destroyed by a tornado…http://www.greensburggreentown.org/history/

[Thomas J. Johnson]

Legoland? (Sorry, I couldn’t help it…)

http://california.legoland.com/explore/

 

Irvine, CA? Well, it’s 40 years old but is an interesting study none the less…

http://www.cityofirvine.org/cityhall/cd/planningactivities/general_…

 

Shenzhen – China

Dubai – UAE

 

http://www.newcities.org/principles/index.asp

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08shenzhen-t.html

 

As a side note, I’ve yet to see a “new city” that didn’t feel “plastic” and inhumane like some kind of stepford wive’s social experiment gone wrong…

[Ryland Fox]

China’s ghost cities

link

[Amy Verel]

Leidsche Rijn in the Netherlands is an entirely new addition to the city of Utrecht that’s still under construction – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidsche_Rijn

I did a case study on it in grad school (self plug 🙂 http://courses.umass.edu/greenurb/2006/averel/index.html

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