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'Incheon' Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea, Bing Maps 2010
II.) Img. _01

Geoposition
37° 33' 59.53'' N, 126° 58' 40.69'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Incheon Free Economic Zone' [2003]
Seoul National Capital Area

'Masdar City' Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Google Maps 2010
I.) Img. _02

Geoposition
24° 25' 58.12'' N, 54° 37' 5.47'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Masdar City'
Master Plan by Foster + Partners [2007]

'Hashima Island' near Nagasaki, Japan, Google Maps 2010
I.) Img. _03

Geoposition
32° 37' 39.86'' N, 129° 44' 18.50'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Hashima Island' [1887 - 1974]
[Gunkanjima]

'Astana' Kazakhstan, Google Maps 2010
I.) Img. _04

Geoposition
51° 10' 47.47'' N, 71° 26' 48.06'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Astana' [1997]
Masterplan by Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates [1998] and others …

'Poundbury' Dorchester, Dorset, UK, Bing Maps 2010
II.) Img. _05

Geoposition
50° 42' 38.02'' N, 2° 27' 28.38'' W
http://www.bing.com/

'Poundbury' [1993]
Masterplan by Léon Krier [1980s]

'Lavasa' Maharashtra, India, Google Maps 2010
I.) Img. _06

Geoposition
18° 24' 8.97'' N, 73° 30' 17.74'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Lavasa' [ » lifestyle development « of 4 towns - Dasve, Mugaon …]
Masterplan by hok [after 2000]

'Zlín' Moravia, Czech Republic, approx. 1936
III.) Img. _07

Geoposition
49° 13' 36.80'' N, 17° 40' 8.05'' O
http://www.bing.com/

'Zlín' » industrial garden city « III.)
Masterplans by
Jan Kotěra [during WWI]
František Lydie Gahura [from 1921]
Josef Gočár [consultant]
[…]
[and there is a plan 2 3 by Le Corbusier 1935]

'Nova Huta' Kraków, Poland
IV.) Img. _08

Geoposition
50° 4' 26.61'' N, 20° 2' 16.80'' E
http://www.bing.com/

'Nowa Huta' [built from 1949]
Chief architect: Tadeusz Ptaszycki

'Nowe Tychy' Silesia, Poland, improved plan 1960
IV.) Img. _09

Geoposition
50° 7' 0.40'' N, 18° 59' 26.54'' E
http://www.bing.com/

'Nowe Tychy' [1960]
Masterplan by Kazimierz Wejchert and Hanna Adamczewska 1951 [approved 1953]


 

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  1. Google Maps 2010

    Img. _ 02 Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Img. _ 03 Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan
    Img. _ 04 Astana, Kazakhstan
    Img. _ 06 Lavasa, Maharashtra, India
  2. Bing Maps 2010 [Microsoft]

    Img. _ 01 Incheon, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea
    Img. _ 05 Poundbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
  3. ^ 'The Baťa Legacy: The Realization of a Utopia' by Vladimír Šlapeta, published in "A Utopia of Modernity : Zlín". A publication by Zipp - German-Czech cultural projects, edited by Katrin Klingan in cooperation with Kerstin Gus, Berlin, JOVIS Verlag, 2009.
    PDF from http://www.projekt-zipp.de/ […]

    Img. _ 07 Zlín, Moravia, Czech Republic
    Caption: » Apartment houses in the Zálešná district of Zlín with Zadní Díly in the background. Master plans by F. L. Gahura, c. 1936. « [page 59]
  4. 'New Towns: Regional Planning and Development' by Pierre Merlin, published by Methuen & Co Ltd 1971 [First published 1969 as Les Villes Nouvelles by Presses Universitaires de France, Paris] http://books.google.at/

    Img. _08 » Nowa Huta: detailed plan of sector D. « [page 204, detail]
    Img. _09 » Improved development plan for the new toen of Nowe Tychy 1960. « [page 201, detail]

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