Once called the “geese that laid the golden eggs,” controversial New Town redevelopment projects have fallen on hard times. On eight out of ten sites in Seoul, construction has yet to even begin, while vehement resident objections have come in Gyeonggi Province in the wake of a series of renunciation announcements from local governments there.

“In the last 30 years, China has built many industrial cities and towns in Xinjiang, but in these new towns, Uyghurs make up only three to four percent of the population. The rest are Han Chinese immigrants. That is why I believe the reconstruction and investment in Urumqi will only benefit the Chinese people,” he said.

Creating smart infrastructure for cities around the world has become the new frontier of urban planning, a global business estimated to be worth as much as $122-billion over the next two years.

The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world’s largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.

The Chapelton of Elsick masterplan, which was developed as a two-week public charrette in September and October last year, has been introduced to the public in a 24-page post-charrette paper and distributed to houses in the Portlethen and Newtonhill area.

From next year, council tenants who claim benefits will face financial restrictions similar to those in private rented accommodation; if changes in their circumstances mean that they have too much room, their housing benefit will be cut to persuade them to face reality.

Cheap rents and urban glamour have attracted trend-seekers from around the world to central Berlin neighborhoods such as Kreuzberg and Neukölln. But it is the current residents who are paying the price of gentrification. They are being pushed out to high-rise developments on the edge of the city, where poverty and violence are part of daily life.

Kashgar is China’s most western city. It is close to the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, and Baghdad, Teheran, Ankara and the Mediterranean are closer than Shanghai. The city is well known for a few things. First, it was an ‘oasis on the Silk Route’, China’s gate to Central Asia. Second, it is in rapid speed destroying its famous Islamic maze-like inner city. Third, it has a Sunday animal market.

The story of Panvel could be a bit different from Navi Mumbai. Though located a bit beyond Navi Mumbai, it has attracted attention as a new town, which could become bigger than Navi Mumbai and even ease some of the population pressures that Mumbai currently faces.

Songdo isn’t so much a Korean city as a Western one floating just offshore from Seoul. It was chartered as an “international business district”—a hub for companies working in China. Worried about being squeezed by its neighbors, Songdo is Korea’s earnest attempt to build an answer to Hong Kong. To make expatriates feel at home, its malls are modeled after those in Beverly Hills, and Jack Nicklaus designed the golf course. But its most salient feature is shrouded in a perpetual haze on the other end of a 12-mile-long bridge that is one of the world’s longest. That’s the home of Incheon International Airport, which opened in 2001 on another man-made island and instantly became one of the world’s busiest hubs.

China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million.

Hemel Hempstead isn’t that unique in Britain. It is a postwar new town with an identity crisis and declining infrastructure. It is probably the largest town in Hertfordshire and part of probably the largest district council in the county but one where the rural 40 per cent of wards often decide who controls the council. It has wards that are affluent and middle class and one ward that is in the top 25 per cent of the most deprived in England. It is a town of contrasts and a town and constituency that Labour can, should and must win to form a majority government.

Gary Chan Hak-kan, a member of the Legislative Council housing panel, said: "The problem with Tin Shui Wai is that there are insufficient community facilities, such as family counseling centers for the grassroots.
"A balanced housing mix is very important for sustainable development of a new town."

Detailed plans for the new town of Cranbrook in east Devon have been put on the local council’s website for the first time.The scheme, to help address housing needs and tackle climate change, is one of a number of more environmentally-friendly settlements to be built in England.

Is Rajarhat New Town a hastily conceived dream that was never backed by proper planning and intent? Or, is it just the inefficiency of the authorities that let the satellite township slip off the path of growth and lose its way in the vast open fields and dusty roads that lead nowhere?

Disney invented Celebration as an ideal American small town. But recession, a brutal murder and a suicide have killed the magic

There was a time when people queued up to move to Newton Aycliffe. Recent decades, though, have seen Aycliffe - like so many post-war New Towns - fall from favour. Work has now begun to demolish some of the unpopular 1960s buildings with the hope of bringing new investment into the town. Despite falling behind schedule, the town centre’s management say they are ’fully committed’ to their plans to replace much of the shopping district.

The Government and ruling party of Namibia, Swapo, welcomed the arrival of 30 Cuban professionals in the fields of town planning, civil and general engineering, structural design and construction on Monday. The Cubans are to be attached to the Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development. They would assist Government with, among others, the establishment of new towns, design Government infrastructure, as well as, in some instances, help with policy formulations.

In Tuscany, small sun-baked towns shuffle past your car or train window like so many filed-away postcards, leaving a pleasant but undistinguished impression as you make your way to Florence, Siena or Pisa. Yet for travelers with the right kind of eyes, dodging through the hills to visit these tiny towns can be the best way to understand Tuscany, while providing a calmer, more personalized experience.

AN APOCALYPTIC vision of Britain sees the Government being forced to build a new town in Dumfries and Galloway to deal with mass migration from the south.

Developing public transportation is an important agenda in the plan of Jimei New Town’s construction in the near future. After passengers get off buses, they can rent bicycles at bicycle serving spots as there will be cycleways in the whole town, Xiamen Economic Daily reports.

The Kremlin is considering pushing ahead with the biggest geographical redistribution of its population since Josef Stalin’s forced deportations of entire nationalities in the 1940s.

In the 1940s and 1950s, right after the World War 2 Russia had to recover from the consequences of the Nazi invasion. Lots had to be done and as we know to complete something you need to have enough energy. And energy at that times as well as it is much likely now meant oil.

The Chinese government has warned that feverish urban expansion is threatening farmland and forcing farmers off their land as local governments raze villages to create new towns and cities.

What makes a city? Certainly an abundance of people is needed (that and maybe a few skyscrapers too.) But when trying to find signs of urbanization in the ancient world, archaeologists like to look at more than just population size. Factors like whether or not a social hierarchy existed, was there a political system in place, and if the denizens specialized in different professions, are just some of the indicators used. Even the development of art and monuments can serve as benchmarks.