purpose-built towns and cities have many precedents in antiquity - the 195 BC iteration of Chang'an providing a case in point - the New Towns movement refers...
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The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from...
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City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present New Towns and Eco-towns in the United Kingdom. The campaign continued in 2013 with the...
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Kingdom, designated under Acts of Parliament since 1946 New towns movement Garden city movement Newton (disambiguation) Newtonville (disambiguation) Newtown...
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Planned community (redirect from New Towns)
settlements that evolve organically. The term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom...
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Patrick Abercrombie (category Presidents of the Royal Town Planning Institute)
rejected by the Councillors of Hull. From the Abercrombie Plan came the New Towns movement which included the building of Harlow and Crawley and the largest...
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depending on the characteristics of the local area. Transition Towns Transition Towns offer a beacon of hope in the face of environmental and social challenges...
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Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They are...
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consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as unifying Mind-Body-Spirit, and rarely use the term New Age themselves. Scholars...
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where it would follow similar ideas and direction to the British New towns movement.: 59 Between the 1940s and 1970s it was planned and developed for...
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The town is the "mother of towns" in Chautauqua County since all other towns in the county towns were once part of it. The town is still one of the largest...
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of Tifinagh letters. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad or the Azawad National Liberation Movement (French: Mouvement national de libération...
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Theories of urban planning (section Sanitary movement)
Brentham Garden Suburb, and Welwyn Garden City. The movement would also inspire the later New towns movement. Arturo Soria y Mata's idea of the Linear city...
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History of urban planning (section New Towns)
and sewage disposal. Hundreds of towns and cities were built by the Romans throughout their empire. Many European towns, such as Turin, preserve the remains...
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was defeated. Peconic County is a proposed new county in New York that would secede the five easternmost towns of Suffolk County: East Hampton, Riverhead...
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Letchworth (category New towns started in the 1900s)
first garden city, Letchworth has had a notable impact on town planning and the new towns movement; it influenced nearby Welwyn Garden City, which used a...
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Movement is the debut studio album by English rock band New Order, released on 13 November 1981 by Factory Records. Recorded in the wake of Joy Division...
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avoid the development of ghost towns once a mining resource has been fully extracted. The Middle East has many ghost towns and ruins that were created when...
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American urban history (redirect from New urban history)
Government (University of New Mexico Press, 1974) Carol Ann Christensen, The American garden city and the new towns movement (1986). Daniel Schaffer, Garden...
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war-industry camps founded other company towns. Since company stores often had a monopoly in company towns, it was frequently possible to pay in scrip...
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forces of the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and the Islamist Ansar Dine against the city. The new group claimed to oppose both...
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around 1770, and the town of Woodstock was established in 1787. Later, territory from Woodstock was contributed to form the towns of Middletown (1789)...
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The Amal Movement (Arabic: حركة أمل, romanized: Ḥarakat ʿAmal, lit. 'Hope Movement') is a Lebanese political party and former militia affiliated mainly...
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the town has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2). It is directly north of the New York City borough of the Bronx, and borders Eastchester, New Rochelle...
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(1990). "New Zealand as an Archipelago: An International Perspective". In Towns, D.; Daugherty, C.; Atkinson, I. (eds.). Ecological Restoration of New Zealand...
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grassroots protests. The social movement's major nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience campaigns eventually secured new protections in federal law for...
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The Houthi movement (/ˈhuːθi/; Arabic: الحوثيون al-Ḥūthiyūn [al.ħuː.θi.juːn]), officially known as Ansar Allah (أنصار الله ʾAnṣār Allāh, lit. 'Supporters...
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Flower Mound, Texas (category Towns in Denton County, Texas)
Development through their New Community program. Called "Flower Mound New Town", the project included elements of the new towns movement, including collaboration...
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location within town limits: Onteora Park, Twilight Park and Elka Park. The town is on the southern border of Greene County and abuts the towns of Woodstock...
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Wixams (category New towns started in the 2000s)
itself and Kempston, and one of the largest new settlements founded in England since the British new towns movement of the first twenty five years after World...
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