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2 unusual facts about Millennium village


Millennium village

Millennium Villages Project, a project to reduce poverty in Africa by developing a number of villages, led by Columbia University.

Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative) - an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.



see also

New Towns Act 1946

Holbeck Urban Village in Leeds is a similar redevelopment scheme to the Greenwich Millennium Village, although is not officially part of the Millennium Communities Programme.