WASHINGTON: ANGRY CITIZENS AND AN AMBITIOUS PLAN**Reprinted by permission from New Towns In-Town: Why a Federal Program Failed, by Martha Derthick. Copyright © 1972, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. This material includes the Washington case study and the final portion of the concluding chapter of New Towns In-Town (pp. 25–40, 93–102).

New towns and cities are proposed as the places for absorbing the population overflow and limiting the population growth in metropolises. In Iran, these towns and cities are built very close to the metropolises, and gradually, they are being used only as dormitories. The new town of Pardisan is built 13 kilometers southwest of Qom as the largest new town of the urban district of Qom in order to organize the residence system and absorb the population overflow of the metropolis of Qom and reduce its problems. This paper studies the function of the Pardisan new town as the absorber of the population overflow of Qom and also the residents’ satisfaction with this town. The research method adopted by this study is based on the library, documentary, and field data, and also interviews and collection of data by questionnaires and TOPSIS model. The results of this research indicate that many of the families living in the Pardisan town constitute the population overflow of the metropolis of Qom; Among the most important reasons for the migration of families to the Pardisan town is the low cost of land and residence, and 4.67 percent of the residents do not like to live in this town. This unsuccess is mostly due to lack of job and activity in this town, and therefore, the residents are less satisfied with the town.

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The Potential Effects of New High-Speed Corridor Towards Planning New Towns: Reflection on a Case Study

IEIS2019 ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-5660-9_53 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 705-715

Author(s):

Osman Ghanem ◽

Khalid Mehmood Alam ◽

Xuemei Li

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

New Towns

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Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet

Rethinking Urbanism ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529204452.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 155-178

Author(s):

Garth Myers

Keyword(s):

Urban Studies ◽

Urban Politics ◽

Global South ◽

City Government ◽

New Towns ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Global North ◽

Policy Mobilities ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation Strategies

This chapter examines the urban studies literatures on urban politics and policy mobilities, from postcolonial southern perspectives. Analysis of urban politics is in flux within global urban studies. For years, the predominant focus of global North urban studies in analyzing urban politics resided with understanding growth machines and urban. Recently, there has been a general change in focus from discreet units at scale (i.e. a city government) to a ‘relational’ approach. What does this work look like, viewed from the global South? How do urbanists from the global South or those focused on its cities approach these arenas of scholarship? The chapter seeks answers to these questions with specific policies in mind. specific policies examined include participatory budgeting, bus rapid transit, enclave urbanization (new towns or satellite cities), sister city relationships, and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Case study material from Hartford, San Juan, Zanzibar and Dongguan helps to show different ways in which South-South connectivities shape politics, governance and urban cultures at both ends.

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The new towns in the Agro Pontino: a literature review and critical bibliography

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20196308003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 ◽

pp. 08003

Author(s):

Emanuela Margione

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Morphological Structure ◽

Capital City ◽

Medium Size ◽

Historical Period ◽

Urban Centre ◽

New Towns ◽

Reclamation Project ◽

The Relationship

This literature review intends to focus on how the settlements system of the Agro Pontino, newly designed in a geographic area contiguous to the capital city and directly connected to the integral reclamation project elaborated by the agricultural economist Arrigo Serpieri starting from 1923, is narrated. The reclamation of the Agro Pontino is one of the most important territorial transformations carried out by Fascism under direct public control. Also, this case study is particularly significant due to the relationship between the capital city, Rome, as large urban centre, the new medium size cities, villages and the morphological structure of agricultural holdings, into a historical context where the concept of agricultural property is defined. Today we have an enormous number of books, paper and documents written in different historical period that can help us to understand the evolution of the Italian new towns but at the same time the large number of these materials can also make it difficult for understanding the project and its meaning through time. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to explain how to prepare a critical bibliography able to show the evolution of the reclamation project and the construction of new towns and the changing of its meaning over time. Also, thanks to this bibliography it’s possible to extract the main issues related to the Italian case study: the relationship between the existing landscape and the network of roads; the relationship between the plans for villages, towns and the architectural features of the new settlements, and finally, the role of public buildings as a system of public facilities promoting new behaviour patterns, and their bold modernist architecture symbolized the conquest of the land.

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