24 Facts About Planned city

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Planned capital is a city specially planned, designed and built to be a capital.

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Konza Technology City is a planned city that is hoped to become a hub of African science and technology upon its completion in 2030.

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The Planned city is designed to become a major tourist attraction to the country.

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Planned city settlements set up for white inhabitants included Welkom, Sasolburg and Secunda.

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Planned city then created a metropolitan area called Metro Manila, which remains congested today due to failed execution of the Quezon City plan as well as the Burnham Plan.

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The quality of municipal Planned city planning suggests knowledge of urban planning and efficient municipal governments which placed a high priority on hygiene.

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The Planned city center was rebuilt with the lead of the German architect Carl Ludvig Engel.

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Odesa was built as a planned city according to 18th-century plans by the Flemish engineer Franz de Wollant .

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The Planned city was abandoned on 27 April 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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Finally, five "third-generation" towns were launched in the late 1960s: these were larger, some of them based on substantial existing settlements such as Peterborough, and the most famous was probably Milton Keynes, midway between London and Birmingham, known for its huge central park and shopping centre, designed from the outset as a new Planned city – though in law it is a 'New Town'.

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The Planned city was largely destroyed in the 1520s by Spanish conquistadores.

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The entire Planned city was laid out to conform to the contours of natural water runoff which allowed him to dredge mud from the low-lying areas thereby forming canals and with the dirt that was removed in the process, along the sides of the canals raise the elevation high enough to create housing pads.

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The fortunes of this planned city have historically risen and fallen with those of the steel mill: prosperous in the 1930s, the city has lost 55 percent of its population since 1960.

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Colonial Planned city was the basic administrative organism of the Portuguese and Spanish viceroyalties in America.

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The Planned city was abandoned and moved to its current location before the end of the 16th century.

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Urban planner Pedro Benoit designed a Planned city layout based on a rationalist conception of urban centers.

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The Planned city has the shape of a square with a central park and two main diagonal avenues, north–south and east–west.

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Inhabitation of the Planned city was subsidized by the local government, through the concession of free empty lots and funding for building houses.

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Australia's most prominent fully planned city is Canberra, its capital, designed by American architect Walter Burley Griffin.

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Walter Burley Griffin was Australia's most notable Planned city planner, having designed smaller cities and towns, including Leeton and Griffith in New South Wales.

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Land had been sold before anyone set foot in the largely unexplored territory and the city was surveyed and planned in a remarkably short space of time.

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The deliberate exclusion of Planned city squares or open space within the grid was a subject of future frustration for the municipality and residents.

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The Planned city was designed to be the Federal Capital following the federation of the six Australian colonies which formed the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Unlike some other Australian cities, the road network, suburbs, parks and other elements of the Planned city were designed in context with each other, rather than haphazard planning as witnessed in much of Sydney.

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