New Town Definition

noun
A planned urban community designed for self-sufficiency and providing housing, educational, commercial, and recreational facilities for its residents.
American Heritage
Any of a number of comprehensively planned, often self-contained, towns and cities built esp. just after WWII in Great Britain, often under government direction.
Webster's New World

Used other than as an idiom: see new,"Ž town.

Wiktionary
(UK) A town built to address housing shortages post World War II.
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Noun

Singular:
new town
Plural:
new-towns

New Town Sentence Examples

  • The most interesting buildings are the old fortified château of the 16th century, with its Gothic chapel restored in 1880; the church of St Bartholomew, dating in its present form from 1538; the new town hall (1894); the Griines Tor, also built in 1538; and the handsome new synagogue.

  • Since 1880 the city has been almost entirely renovated in the " European " style; the narrow tortuous lanes and mean houses of the Turkish epoch have almost disappeared, and a new town with straight parallel streets has been constructed in the eastern suburb.

  • A long stone quay next the harbour is backed by the new town climbing up the slopes behind.

  • The new town hall and post-office are near the uppermost bridge.

  • It consists of the old town on the left, the new town on the right, bank of the Werra, and BrUckenhausen on a small island connected with the old and new town by bridges.

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