Fort Lincoln, United States, North America
 
 
Year1972latitude: 38° 55'
longitude: -76° 57'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organizationBuilding Systems International, Inc. and Westinghouse
Inhabitants
Target population15,000
Town website
Town related links
Literature- * Hugh Mields, 'Federally Assisted New Communities. New Dimensions in Urban Development', Washington 1973

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
Initiated during the latter part of the Johnson Administration. Fort LIncoln, Washington D.C., is the first of the planned new-towns-in-town.

source: Hugh Mields, 'Federally Assisted New Communities. New Dimensions in Urban Development', Washington 1973

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