List of company towns

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This is a list of company towns.

See the category Company towns for an unannotated list of articles.
See the category Socialist planned cities for an unannotated list of articles.

Europe

Belgium

Czech Republic

Denmark

France

Germany

Former GDR

Hungary

Ireland

  • Rochfortbridge (County Westmeath), built by public company OPW in the 1840s as part of famine relief on the site of an original village and rebuilt 110 years later by Bord na Móna during the 1950s for its employees, the more modern phase being designed by architect Frank Gibney.

Italy

Moldova

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Ukraine

Russia

Kstovo's Peace Square and the WWII monument, sponsored by its city's company LUKOIL.

Iron and Steel industry:

Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel):

Iron mining:

Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:

Oil and gas:

Petrochemical industry:

Textile industry

Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразующее предприятие" (gradoobrazuyushcheye predpriyatiye, literally 'the enterprise that has created the town') to refer to the industrial facility - these days often part of a larger company such as LUKOIL or Norilsk Nickel - that is the city's main employer and the main source of funding for the city's budget.

Slovakia

United Kingdom

Main article: Model village

North America

Canada

See List of company towns in Canada

Dominican Republic

Mexico

United States

See List of company towns in the United States

Asia

India

Vikroli, Mumbai, earlier Bombay, developed by Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Sakharwadi, Maharashtra, developed by Walchand Industries Kirloskarwadi, Maharashtra developed by L.K.Kirloskar

Indonesia

Japan

Hokkaido
Tohoku district
Kanto district
Chubu district
Kinki district
Chugoku district
Shikoku district
Kyushu district

Malaysia

Pakistan

  • Batapur, a residence area for labour workers in the Bata shoe factory.
  • Steel Town, a residential area for employees of Pakistan Steel Mills.

Vietnam

Australia

West Asia

  • Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company
  • Awali, home of the Bahrain Petroleum Company

Iran

References

  1. ^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). A dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture (2. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198606788. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. ^ Encyklopedia Warszawy. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 1994, p. 328–329. ISBN 83-01-08836-2.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "History of Alborz Industrial City".
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