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Philadelphia and Savannah,GA are also planned cities.
Plenty of new suburbs are planned cities
Initially planned and laid out. Wasn't followed in one city. Original yes and that is the original city now its Core. But streets quickly got subdivided, alleys became actual streets and no more town squares as originally planned.
Confusing a street-grid city as if a fully planned city, as if in its entirety ..... is not true as a fully planned city. That is if only the original city of a few centuries ago was planned. You know what city I refer to ....
Google “Babcock Ranch”. Incredible planned community.
What's so incredible? Looks like just another huge housing development to me. No indication of any employment other than service industry. More chains and franchises, meh. Probably way too much commercial space for today's shrinking brick and mortar sector.
Columbia MD. Well situated between Washington and Baltimore, allowing commutes to either. Where it fell short: inclusionary zoning. It was supposed to be for all income levels but not enough at the low end.
Boulder City is one that comes to mind, built for the workers who put up Hoover Dam. The same may be true of Page, AZ, I don't know. Yes, Salt Lake City was planned out by the Mormon founders, but I would think only the "downtown" area surrounding the Temple, most of the rest of it, especially the suburbs, just grew up like most other cities.
On the far south side of Chicago, is the remains of a fully planned community built by railroad car builder George Pullman, although today the area isn't quite what George planned, LOL. I'm pretty sure Barack designated it as a national monument. Never been, but it sounds like an interesting place to visit (personally, I'd pack heat if I went, just to even the odds).
Columbia MD. Well situated between Washington and Baltimore, allowing commutes to either. Where it fell short: inclusionary zoning. It was supposed to be for all income levels but not enough at the low end.
Columbia had lots of other problems. Each 'village' had one shopping area with one gas station (Brand decided by developer) The street plan was impossible to figure out 30 years before GPS and there was little or no signage (because people in the neighborhood would know where their village shopping was located. There was little local employment for the first 20 years which meant most people commuted to Ft Meade or the Baltimore area. And there was little or no option other than private cars to do that.
It eventually outgrew those issues mainly when the original developer loosened the strings and allowed more retail based on consumer demand. It helped that the entire region grew based on government contracts and secondary government spending. But the lack of planned transportation infrastructure is still a problem.
Several retirement communities built from scratch by a developer in Arkansas about 50 years ago.
Cherokee Village, Bella Vista, Hot Springs Village.
Some/ all later voted to become cities with a city govt
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