9 September - Inquiry probes plan for new town

8 September - Five schools for planned new town near Inverness

7 September - To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in Sand

6 September - TReC* invites you to YAPYAŞA!

2 September - INTI acquired relevant New Town books from library of Dutch Ministry VROM!

1 September - Israel to end assistance to planned city on West Bank

31 August - New pilgrims city planned north of Mina

30 August - World’s Fastest-Growing Megalopolis Hides in Fog

26 August - Nucleus Cities For Southern Sudan States

25 August - Auda announces 14 new town planning schemes in Gujarat

24 August - That Luang new town to go ahead: officials says

23 August - Sudan unveils plan for rhinoceros-shaped city

18 August - Almere bepleit Schaalsprong als ‘nationaal project’ in regeerakkoord

10 August - Almere, de Suburb voorbij?

4 August - Nelson pays $1.7m more for new town

28 July - Contested Urbanism: Reclaiming the Right to the City in Dharavi?

28 July - Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed

28 July - De nieuwe leefstijlenstrijd

21 July - Asia’s alarming cities

21 July - The third revolution in the computing world

7 July - Bangalore masterplan launched

7 July - Post-Soviet Urbanism in Mongolia

24 June - SWA Group’s Design for Nanjing Hexi New Town

24 June - Mixed Feelings Over New Town In Hanoi

15 June - Magarpatta: building a city with rural-urban partnership

15 June - This town has been sold to Tesco

8 June - Masdar City downsizes goals as property market sours

8 June - Kaputei New Town

3 June - Work stops on Chinese ghost town

3 June - Honoring the suburban dream

26 May - Retopia Bijlmermeer

26 May - The Sociology of Public Space

26 May - HUD Announces the End of Urban Sprawl as We Know It, New Urbanists Feel Fine

10 May - Construction Underway on Rawabi, First Planned Palestinian City

10 May - Shanghai Expo showcases world cities’ past and present

10 May - Ghost estates testify to Irish boom and bust

22 April - Anniversary for Brasilia leaves architect ’sad’

19 April - New Town in Abu Dhabi

15 April - Greenwashing. The Forum Esplanade Barcelona.

15 April - Latvia auctions off military ghost town for $3m

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9 September -
Inquiry probes plan for new town

Proposals for a controversial new town in Warwickshire have been discussed at a planning inquiry considering housing targets in the West Midlands.

8 September -
Five schools for planned new town near Inverness

Plans for a new town near Inverness include five schools, about 5,000 homes and parkland. The site at Tornagrain stands in what is known as the A96 corridor between Inverness and Nairn.

7 September -
To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in Sand

The highway west out of Cairo used to promise relief from the city’s chaos. Past the great pyramids of Giza and a final spasm of traffic, the open desert beckoned, 100 barren miles to the northwest to reach the Mediterranean.

6 September -
TReC* invites you to YAPYAŞA!

YAPYAŞA is a scientific and artistic work searching for new financial, temporal and organizational models of urban transformation. YAPYAŞA is an interactive real-time, real-agent, role-playing city game. YAPYAŞA utilizes parametric 3D urbanism. YAPYAŞA is politically neutral towards all actors of urban transformation. YAPYAŞA professionally takes a position for ‘design by collective intelligence’. YAPYAŞA aims to demarcate Istanbul’s collective common interests through the interactions of players. YAPYAŞA acts upon transforming the generic urban block that represents 70% of the city fabric, by addressing a variety of pressing themes from an imminent earthquake to long-term sustainability, re-densification to legalization. The word YAPYAŞA** [build&inhabit] is an allusion to the Turkish term YAPSAT [build&sell] and it promotes a socially sustainable urban transformation.

2 September -
INTI acquired relevant New Town books from library of Dutch Ministry VROM!

The Dutch Ministry of Social Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (VROM) is cleaning up its library. INTI had the opportunity to choose all the relevant New Town books from over 120,000 publications! The books will soon be moved to the special INTI section in the library of Almere.

1 September -
Israel to end assistance to planned city on West Bank

TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel will stop any assistance offered to the Palestinian Authority to build a new city, Ar-Rawabi, in the West Bank, Israeli press reported Thursday.

31 August -
New pilgrims city planned north of Mina

JEDDAH: Plans are afoot to establish a new pilgrim city north of Mina to accommodate 1.5 million people during Haj. Higher authorities have instructed the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to conduct research into the feasibility of the plans.