A new town is a generic name for a

planned community A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...

, or a planned expansion of a community. New Town may also refer to:

Music

* ''New Town'' (Jandek album) * ''New Town'' (Koop Arponen album)

Places

Australia

* New Town, South Australia, a suburb of Kadina *

New Town, Tasmania New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, about north of the central business district of Hobart. It is generally considered Hobart's oldest suburb, settled just a week after Sullivans Cove. It was historically the home ...

, a suburb of Hobart

Canada

*''New Town'', former name of Montreal neighbourhood

Golden Square Mile The Golden Square Mile (, ), also known as the Square Mile, is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central section of downtown Montreal in Quebec, Ca ...

China

Zhujiang New Town Zhujiang New Town or Zhujiang New City is a central business district in Tianhe District, Guangzhou city, Guangdong province, China. It is bounded by Huangpu Avenue on the north, the Pearl River on the south, Guangzhou Avenue on the west ...

, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Czechia

New Town, Prague New Town () is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and largest of the five independent (from the Middle Ages until 1784) towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague. New Town was found ...

(''Nové Město''), a district of Prague

Finland

Uusikaupunki Uusikaupunki (; , ) is a list of towns in Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland regions of Finland, region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a pop ...

("New Town" in Finnish; )

Ghana

New Town, Ghana New Town is a village in the Jomoro district, a district in the Western Region of Ghana, adjacent to the border with Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the ...

, Western Region

India

Rajarhat Rajarhat is a locality under the jurisdiction of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Demog ...

, also called New Town, Kolkata *

New Town, Kolkata New Town ( Rajarhat New Town) is a planned city, planned Satellite city of Kolkata in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is administered by NKDA (New Town Kolkata Development Authority). New Town is declared a ...

Japan

Tama New Town is a large residential development, straddling the municipalities of Hachiōji, Tama, Inagi and Machida cities, in Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a new town in 1965. It is approximately long stretching east-west, and between and wide, loc ...

, Tama, Tokyo * Senboku New Town, Osaka

Malta

Paola, Malta Paola (, , both meaning "New Town") is a town in the Port Region, Malta, Port Region of Malta, with 8,706 inhabitants as of 2019. The town is a commercial centre in the Southern Harbour area of Malta, about from the capital Valletta, contiguous ...

, also known as Raħal Ġdid (new town in Maltese)

Pakistan

* New Town, Karachi, also called Binori Town

Poland

Warsaw New Town New Town, historically known as New Warsaw, is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście. The town of New Warsaw had been established in the early 15 ...

, an old district of Warsaw

Slovakia

Nové Mesto, Bratislava Nové Mesto (meaning ''New Town'') is a borough of Bratislava, in the Bratislava III district. It is located north and north-east of the Old Town, Bratislava, Old Town. The borough also borders Rača (Bratislava), Rača, Vajnory, Ružinov, Lamač ...

(''New Town'' in English), a borough in Bratislava

Slovenia

Novo mesto Novo Mesto (; ; also known by #Name, alternative names) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, seventh-largest city of Slovenia. It is the economic and cultural centre of the traditional region of Lower Carniola (southeastern Slovenia) and ...

(''New Town'' in English)

United Kingdom

* New Town, Birmingham, an inner-city district of Birmingham, West Midlands * New Town, Luton, a district of Luton, Bedfordshire *

New Town, Stevenage Stevenage ( ) is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M) motorway, A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and W ...

, Hertfordshire *

New Town, Southampton Nicholstown-Newtown (usually called Nicholstown or Newtown) is a small area to the north-east of Southampton's city centre. To the north is Bevois Valley, to the east Northam and to the west and south is St Mary's. In the north of Newtown is ...

, a district of the city of Southampton, Hampshire *New Town, Ashford, Kent, original spelling of

Newtown, Kent Newtown is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, South East England. It was built by the South Eastern Railway (SER), south-east of the railway station, alongside Ashford railway works. Originally designed for railway workers, the estate survived the cl ...

New Town, Walsall New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 ** "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (No Doubt song), 19 ...

, a district of Walsall, West Midlands *

New Town, Enford, Wiltshire Enford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the northeast of Salisbury Plain. The village lies southeast of Devizes and north of Salisbury. The parish includes nine small settlements along both banks of the headwaters of the ...

New Town, Ramsbury, Wiltshire Ramsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about east and Marlborough about west. The much larger town of Swindo ...

New Town (Colchester ward) New Town was an ward (politics), electoral ward in Colchester, England from 1974 to 2016. It was first used in the 1973 Colchester Borough Council election, 1973 election and last used at the 2015 Colchester Borough Council election, 2015 electi ...

, Essex *

New Town (Newham ward) A new town is a generic name for a planned community, or a planned expansion of a community. New Town may also refer to: Music * ''New Town'' (Jandek album) * ''New Town'' (Koop Arponen album) Places Australia * New Town, South Australia, ...

, London *

New Town, Edinburgh The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850, and retains much of its original neo-classical and Georgian period architecture. Its best known street is Princes Street ...

, the centre of Edinburgh

United States

*New Town, California, the former name of

Nubieber, California Nubieber (formerly, Big Valley City and New Town) is a census-designated place in Lassen County, California. It is located at the common terminus of the Western Pacific Railroad and the Great Northern Railway Bieber Line southwest of Bieber, ...

*New Town, California, the former name of Newtown, El Dorado County, California * New Town (Jacksonville), a neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida * New Town (Key West), a neighborhood within the City of Key West, Florida *

New Town, Georgia New Town () is an unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, United States, located northeast of Calhoun. New Town is near the New Echota historic site, which was formerly part of the Cherokee Nation. Ashworth Middle School and Gordon ...

*New Town, Louisiana, the former British name of

New Iberia, Louisiana New Iberia (; ) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The city of New Iberia is located approximately southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana, Lafayette, and forms part of ...

New Town, North Dakota New Town is a city in Mountrail County, North Dakota. The population was 2,764 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 18th largest city in North Dakota. New Town was platted in 1950 as a replacement site for the residents of Sanish and ...

*New Town, South Carolina, the former name of

Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a long and continuous stretch of beach known as the " Grand Strand” in the northeastern part of the state. It ...

*New Town, a historically African American neighborhood in

Marshall, Texas Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Harrison County, Texas, Harrison County and a cultural and educational center of the Ark-La-Tex region. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, the population of ...

* Newe Towne, the former name of Cambridge, Massachusetts *New Towne, a neighborhood in colonial

Jamestown, Virginia The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent British colonization of the Americas, English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about southwest of present-day Willia ...

* New Towne Mall, a shopping mall in New Philadelphia, Ohio

Zimbabwe

* New Town, Kwekwe, a suburb of

Kwekwe Kwekwe ( ), formerly known as Que Que, is a city in the Midlands province in central Zimbabwe. The city has a population of 119,863 within the city limits, as of the 2022 census, making it the 7th-largest city in Zimbabwe and the second-mo ...

Town planning

* New town (Alberta), a former municipal status in Alberta, Canada, from 1956 *

New towns of Hong Kong The Government of Hong Kong, Hong Kong government started developing new towns in 1950s in Hong Kong, the 1950s to accommodate Demographics of Hong Kong, Hong Kong's booming population. During the first phase of development, the newly developed ...

, since the 1950s *

New towns of Singapore The new towns of Singapore are planned communities located across Singapore that are designed to be self-contained. Designed to house up to 300,000 residents, these new towns contain areas zoned for housing, recreation and employment, and are ...

, since 1952 *

New towns in the United Kingdom The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War. Designated new towns were place ...

, designated under Acts of Parliament since 1946 *

New towns movement While purpose-built towns and cities have many precedents in antiquity - the 195 BC iteration of Chang'an providing a case in point - the New Towns ''movement'' refers to an ideologically-driven social campaign. The best-known and possibly most inf ...