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13 Facts About New town

1.

New town then created a metropolitan area called Metro Manila, which remains congested today due to failed execution of the Quezon City plan as well as the Burnham Plan.

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New town planning concept was introduced into Singapore with the building of the first New Town, Queenstown, from July 1952 to 1973 by the country's public housing authority, the Housing and Development Board.

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New town Songdo City is a planned international business centre to be developed on 6 square kilometres of reclaimed land along Incheon's waterfront, 65 kilometres west of Seoul and connected to Incheon International Airport by a 10-kilometre highway bridge.

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4.

New town settlements were planned in Europe at least since Greek antiquity .

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The star-shaped fortress and the circular New town plan are based on an Italian Renaissance fortress concept from the 16th century.

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Novi Beograd, meaning New town Belgrade in Serbian, is a municipality of the city of Belgrade, built on a previously undeveloped area on the left bank of the Sava river.

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The best known pre-20th-century new town in the UK was undoubtedly the Edinburgh New Town, built in accordance with a 1766 master plan by James Craig, and the archetype of the elegant Georgian style of British architecture.

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8.

Washington New Town was provided with a community theatre and art gallery.

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9.

The first comprehensively planned New town was Charles Town, which was founded in 1670, planned in 1672, and relocated in 1680.

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10.

Pullman, now incorporated into Chicago's South Side, was a world-renowned company town founded by the industrialist George M Pullman in the 1880s.

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11.

Mariemont, Ohio is a New town financed in the 1920s by philanthropist Mary Emery, designed as a place for both single-family homes and affordable apartments outside of the inner city.

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12.

In more recent years, New Urbanism has set the stage for new cities, with places like Seaside, Florida, and Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida.

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13.

The New town centre was in sufficient proximity to a water source, the River Torrens.

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