Kuwait (Kuwait City), Kuwait, Asia
 
 
Year1951latitude: 29° 22'
longitude: 47° 58'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organizationMinoprio, Spencely and P.W.MacFarlane
Inhabitants96,000 (2005)
Target population
Town website
Town related linkshttp://victorian.fortunecity.com/dali/428/kuwaitarch/kuwaitarch2.html
http://www.slideshare.net/ymahgoub/yasser-mahgoub-paper-gulf-first-urban-pl anning-and-development-conference-2006
Literature

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
 > client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
 > policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
Kuwait went through a rapid process of modernization and cultural change started by its first planning in 1950 by the British office MINOPRIO, SPENCELY AND P.W. MACFARLANE (1951).

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