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Massachusetts is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Municipalities in the state are classified as either towns or cities, distinguished by their form of government under state law. Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager ...
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
Pages in category "Planned communities in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The entire territory of Massachusetts is within the bounds of a municipality, and communities in this category may consist of part of an incorporated municipality, or perhaps a part of two incorporated municipalities. See also Commonwealth of Massachusetts list of Unincorporated Communities in Massachusetts
Planned communities are those that follow a particular design from inception to use. For communities which simply have not yet been established, see Category:Proposed populated places . Compare Category:Intentional communities , which may not necessarily be built according to an overarching plan.
Coulee Dam, Washington was originally two adjacent company towns created in 1933 to support the construction of Grand Coulee Dam – Mason City, owned by lead construction contractor Consolidated Builders Inc., and Engineers' Town, owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. CBI transferred control of Mason City to Reclamation in 1942.
HYANNIS — A plan to classify Cape Cod and other vacation spots as "seasonal communities" will allow those municipalities to unlock new resources to fight the housing crisis, said the state's top ...
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.