It also has a decent rundown of modern American ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community#Modern_plann...).
You'll have to use your own judgement on a case by case basis if they were successful or not and if they meet your personal definition of master planned.
But I found the lists a very interesting read.
It's sad, because in the US, there are actually a lot of good templates for new cities, designed for growth on the outset, that strike a balance between dense and verdant. The oldest part of places like Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, smaller college towns, streetcar suburbs, ... It's so weird that when new suburbs are built, why they are not just straight up copying those 19th century templates.
Dutch urbanism is good but it requires a lot of trust in the government. Urbanists make top down plans, and then work together with property developers to create neighbourhoods. These property developers have to follow a lot of rules and guidelines and there are municipal committees that check whether the architecture is good enough for example. Top down urbanism is often seen as a recipe for disaster, but it seems to work there. I guess there are enough feedback loops in the system so that urbanists get a clue about what people like and implement that. For example, people like living close to water so constructing a neighbourhood often coincides with creating lots of canals and ponds.
The English did planned villages really well.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury [2]: https://robskinner.net/2020/09/03/poundbury-prince-charles-m...
Irvine, California (current population, 300,000) was developed by a private corporation.
Development started in the 1960s.
I have heard that Dubai does not have street names, so giving directions and arranging deliveries can be… challenging. Is this statement accurate?
>They were the will of powerful, bright and respected people.
Not the first adjectives I'd use to describe imperialists, colonialists and warlords personally.
I mean, all of the cities that are most "livable" in my mind are old cities that were designed before the car and thus have enough density and public transportation to make things both close and also the kind of place where it's fun to just walk around.
These "master planned cities" always end up like houses that are designed with all these pretty rooms that nobody actually uses.