• 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 populations...
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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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    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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  • Kingdom, designated under Acts of Parliament since 1946 New towns movement Garden city movement Newton (disambiguation) Newtonville (disambiguation) Newtown...
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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 and Canada...
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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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    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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    and towns. The generic term is "transition initiative", which includes transition neighborhoods, communities, and cities, although "transition town" is...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Movement is the debut studio album by English group New Order, released on 13 November 1981 by Factory Records. Recorded in the wake of Joy Division frontman...
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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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    war-industry camps founded other company towns. Since company stores often had a monopoly in company towns, it was often possible to pay in scrip through...
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  • and that they had in turn captured several towns towards Goma, the provincial capital. March 23 Movement forces had advanced to the outskirts of Goma...
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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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    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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  • Cittaslow (redirect from Slow towns)
    in Italy and inspired by the slow food movement. Cittaslow's goals include improving the quality of life in towns by slowing down its overall pace, especially...
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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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    New Australia was a utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay created by the New Australian Movement. The colony was officially founded on 28 September...
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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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    of Tifinagh letters. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad or the Azawad National Liberation Movement (Tamasheq: ⵜⴰⵏⴾⵔⴰ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵎⴰⵙⵜ ⴹ ⴰⵙⵍⴰⵍⵓ...
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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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  • Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is a human rights concept encompassing the right of individuals to travel from place to place...
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    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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  • The YIMBY movement (short for "yes in my back yard"), based on supply-side economic theory, mostly focuses on public housing policy, encouraging real estate...
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    The boogaloo movement, whose adherents are often referred to as boogaloo boys or boogaloo bois, is a loosely organized far-right anti-government extremist...
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