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  • 6 May - New town will go ahead
  • 6 May - New 2,100-acre Leander community to include nearly 3,000 homes
  • 6 May - Plans to create new towns in Wharfedale to be looked into
  • 29 April - The Daniel Island Company Brings Its Award-winning Approach To Community Development To The Charleston, SC Region’s New Center of Growth
  • 29 April - Welcome to Toytown: what life is like in new-build Britain
  • 29 April - New town needed to tame the wild coast
  • 22 April - EuropaCity: Green-Roofed City Planned Outside of Paris
  • 22 April - SCRA Will Have Presence at 4,500-Acre Master Planned Community
  • 22 April - Residents of Guangzhou new town’s last urban village battle against eviction
  • 16 April - Kochi Smart City master plan approved at Board meeting in Dubai
  • 16 April - Work on Smart City Kochi to start in July
  • 16 April - Satellite city planned in Madurai
  • 16 April - Off-plan Sales for Dubai Sustainable City to Start in July
  • 16 April - Employment key to new town development
  • 12 April - Is Walt Disney’s Perfectly Planned Community, Celebration, Florida, Creepy or Inspiring?
  • 9 April - Board to consider 2031 masterplan
  • 5 April - Government plans to build new city at Karuma
  • 5 April - Satellite city planned in Madurai
  • 2 April - Design plan completed for $1bn Oman medical city
  • 25 March - China’s Xi tells Africa he seeks relationship of equals
  • 20 March - ’Super’ city planned for Cape Town
  • 20 March - Explorers find evidence of 2,500-year-old planned city
  • 15 March - The (Failed) Idea That Links St. Petersburg and Mumbai
  • 12 March - Canberra: Deathly dull at 100?
  • 11 March - OMA designs new city for Qatar
  • 11 March - Planned City of Lavasa: Destination Par Excellence
  • 8 March - Relocation of the City Center of Kiruna Winning Proposal / White Architects
  • 6 March - IKEA, Marriott team up to create new budget hotel chain
  • 5 March - Nigeria: Eko Atlantic - the Making of a Future City
  • 1 March - Kibera’s Soweto slum torn down in dawn raid
  • 26 February - Looking back on Modern Living
  • 25 February - Jonathan, Clinton, Fashola, others laud Eko Atlantic City project
  • 15 February - ’EuroVegas’ gambling complex to be built near Madrid after £8.3bn secured
  • 12 February - Paolo Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti
  • 11 February - Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land
  • 5 February - Zimbabwe’s Capital city moves to Zvimba
  • 4 February - Future Nairobi: 6 new towns planned
  • 30 January - Are smart cities the answer to rising populations?
  • 25 January - Brazilian Architects Don Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Masks in Protest of Foreign-Built Masterplan
  • 24 January - Zawia magazine #01: Utopia: Call for Papers
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    6 May -
    New town will go ahead

    In what councillors described as ‘‘an historic day for Aberdeenshire,’’ ambitious plans for Chapelton - Scotland’s largest new town - were given the go-ahead on Tuesday, paving the way for work to begin on the first new neighbourhood on the Chapelton of Elsick site to the west of Newtonhill.



    6 May -
    New 2,100-acre Leander community to include nearly 3,000 homes

    Taylor Morrison of Texas and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) have purchased more than 2,100 acres of land in Leander, Texas, from Texas-based The Lookout Group as the Austin home builders work to build on the success of nearby developments and the resurgent housing market.



    6 May -
    Plans to create new towns in Wharfedale to be looked into

    The creation of new towns has been suggested by two independent councillors serving Wharfedale as a way of tackling the housing shortage.



    29 April -
    The Daniel Island Company Brings Its Award-winning Approach To Community Development To The Charleston, SC Region’s New Center of Growth

    Carnes Crossroads, a 2,300-acre master planned "sister community" to Daniel Island, is scheduled to launch with a Street Party celebration April 28, 2013. Planned to incorporate many of the same elements that have made Daniel Island a success, the new community will integrate traditional neighborhoods, parks, trails and lakes with schools and churches, a hospital, medical offices, retail businesses, corporate offices and more.



    29 April -
    Welcome to Toytown: what life is like in new-build Britain

    In Cambourne, near Cambridge, mock-Georgian houses sit next to a replica stone circle, along streets with names such as Quidditch Lane. Can these new developments really recreate traditional village life?



    29 April -
    New town needed to tame the wild coast

    MEC for economic development Mcebisi Jonas has announced a plan to build a new town along the Wild Coast to help facilitate the R8bn planned N2 Wild Coast Development Programme.



    22 April -
    EuropaCity: Green-Roofed City Planned Outside of Paris

    In the midst of such a serious recession in Europe, plans are in play for a brand new city outside of Paris, France.






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