Its own capital city, Washington D.C., had the benefit of being planned from scratch at the turn of the 19th century, as did the Australian capital of Canberra, which followed a century later.

Brasilia was planned for a population of just 500,000, ... The $20bn, two-square-mile Kingdom City in Jeddah, planned around the world’s tallest building, the Kingdom Tower, ...

To take one example, the city has 800,000 people (a third of the city’s population) daily passing through Brasilia’s central bus terminal, located where two many-laned avenues intersect.

But does it work as a city? Brasilia was planned from scratch as an ideal city and built on an empty plateau. Niemeyer was the architect and Lucio Costa the urban planner.

Planned communities are cities built from zero using master plans that take into account every aspect of the life of their future citizens. A viral example of a planned city is Saudi Arabia's ...

Brasília, Brazil’s capital city, stands as one of the most ambitious and controversial urban planning projects of the 20th century. Conceived in the 1950s by visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer ...

Ahead of the 2014 World Cup, Bleacher Report is running a series of articles looking at the cities that are set to host the tournament next summer ...

Brasilia was planned for a population of just 500,000, ... The $20bn, two-square-mile Kingdom City in Jeddah, planned around the world’s tallest building, the Kingdom Tower, ...