Foster City, United States, North America
 
 
Year1958latitude: 37° 33'
longitude: -122° 16'
Period
Initiator(s)T. Jack Foster
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organization
Inhabitants28,800 (2000)
Target population
Town websitehttp://www.ci.foster-city.ca.us
Town related links
Literature- None

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
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Industrialization
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Foster City is a planned city located in San Mateo County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 28,803. Foster City was founded in the 1960s on engineered landfill in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay, on the east edge of San Mateo.

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