New towns movement
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New towns movement
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While 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 to an ideologically-driven social campaign. The best-known and possibly most influential of these was a government-driven building and development program which took place in two tranches in the United Kingdom after World War II. Towns were planned and built with two main intentions: to remedy overcrowding and congestion, and to organ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_towns_movement
date created:
2009-05-17T15:01:12Z
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2024-09-05T14:27:01Z
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