Kigali, Rwanda

Kigamboni, Tanzania

New capital of Equatorial Guinea

"Oyala (also known as Djibloho) is a city in current construction to be the future capital of Equatorial Guinea replacing the city of Malabo. It is a planned city which is expected to finish building on an unspecified date in a place chosen for its easy access and climate benign. It is to be located in Wele-Nzas Province, near the town of Mengomeyén.

The city was designed by Portuguese studio for architecture and urbanism IDF - Ideias para o Futuro (Ideas for the Future), and is projected to have around 200,000 inhabitants, a new Congress building, a number of Presidential villas and an area of 8150 hectares."

Note:  Other planned cities in Africa are: Abuja, Nigeria; Gaborone, Botswana; Dodoma, Tanzania; Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire; Konza, Kenya; Ramciel, South Sudan; and Lusaka, Zambia.

See also http://aftermath2022.blogspot.com/2012/12/equatorial-guinea-has-new-capital.html

Tianjin Eco-City

From: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120503-sustainable-cities-on-the-rise/1

China, like several other countries, is exploring the creation of sustainable urban areas, or “ecocities” as they are known. Around the world, ecocities are beginning to emerge from the drawing board, from Masdar City in Abu Dhabi to PlanIT Valley in Portugal. Aimed at being the world’s largest of its type, Tianjin Eco-city is a collaborative project between the Chinese and Singaporean government that will house 350,000 people in a low-carbon, green environment around half the size of Manhattan by 2020. All going well, the team hope its model for building a sustainable city will provide the blueprint for future urbanization efforts in China, and other countries.

Songdo

Abu Dhabi 2030

Eko Atlantic Lagos

Dubai

Gujarat India

Gwadar Pakistan

Somebody with a wild imagination spent a lot of time in SimCity building his dream city.

Islamabad

Chandigarh, India

Chandigarh is a very interesting planned city in India that is the capital of 2 states.

"The city of Chandigarh was the first planned city in India and is known internationally for its architecture and urban design. The city has projects designed by architects such as Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Matthew Nowicki, and Albert Mayer."

I just want to make a note about it for future reference.

Dodoma, Tanzania

Dodoma is the new capital of Tanzania, and it is a planned city, so it shares some characteristics with cities such as Gaborone, Botswana; Abuja, Nigeria; and Brasilia.

The plan is to build it as a series of connected communities, each with a population of about 28000.

Here is a sample layout of a community.

More to follow

New country, new capital

South Sudan is constructing a new capital in Rumsheil.

http://www.petermartell.com/1/post/2011/3/dreams-of-a-new-capital.html

Naypyitaw, Myanmar

Naypyitaw is the new capital of Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. It’s been built from scratch in the middle of nowhere. It's still a work in progress, it was only designated as the administrative capital in 2005, and until recently was largely off-limits to foreigners.

It’s a sprawling, surreal place with so few people that its eight-lane highways are almost deserted – a somewhat shocking site in this congested part of the world.

For several miles down one stretch, I saw just three motorcycles and a truck transporting a group of workers who had been tending the landscaped gardens on either side of the road.

Despite the apparent lack of people, Naypyitaw does have plenty of monstrous government buildings and villas, and several hotels and an international airport are under construction.

--http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/01/9147022-myanmars-new-capital-a-vast-empty-city

India's new cities

"India sets out to build 24 new, industrial cities along a planned dedicated freight corridor from the political capital, New Delhi, to the financial capital, Mumbai priced at a cool $90 billion." (From: http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2011/10/31/navigating-the-obstacle-course-of-india%e2%80%99s-simcities/).

Abuja, Nigeria

Abuja is also one of the most important cities in Africa. It is the "capital" of West Africa, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as the capital of Nigeria, which is the world's seventh largest country by population and which is English-speaking. ECOWAS uses the West African CFA franc as its currency although Nigeria uses the "naira". There is a plan or hope to replace these with a new currency called the "eco" by 2015.

Gaborone, Botswana

SADC Headquarters

Gaborone, Botswana is a planned city which was built in the 1960s. It has the headquarters of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It is only 9 miles from the South African border. Its role as the "capital" of Southern Africa makes it one of the most important cities in Africa.

Botswana is primarily English-speaking and has a per capita income of $7,627, and if viewed on a purchasing power parity basis it is much higher. The IMF states it at $15,489, which is 53rd in the world, and 3rd in Africa behind Seychelles and Equatorial Guinea.

The SADC could become an economic union using the Rand as its currency. The Rand is one of only 17 currencies in the world that are continuously linked.

Skolkovo, Russia - Town of the Future

See http://englishrussia.com/2011/05/18/town-of-the-future/

Guangzhou