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unusual facts about new towns



Tampines

The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.


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Burh

Substantial new towns were built on flat land with a rectangular layout, at for example Oxford, Wallingford, Cricklade and Wareham.

Culture of medieval Poland

Gothic secular buildings such as city halls also became numerous, for example in the new towns of Kazimierz and Wiślica.

English Partnerships

Neil Shields, Chairman of the Commission for New Towns 1982–1995

Fochabers

During the late 18th century, during the Scottish Enlightenment, it was fashionable for landowners to found new towns and villages, and these can be found all over Scotland because unlike their predecessors they all have straight, wide streets in mainly rectangular layouts, a central square, and the houses built with their main elevations parallel to the street.

Leyden, New York

The Town of Leyden gave up much of its territory to form new towns such as the Towns of Watson (1851) and Lewis (1852).

New towns in the United Kingdom

The New Towns proper were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 and later Acts to disperse population following the Second World War.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc

The Arc has the fastest growing population of any of the similar regions within the UK; several of the major towns, most notably Milton Keynes and Bedford, are set to expand by up to 50% over the coming few decades, while others, such as Cambourne, have been built from scratch within the last decade and other new towns such as Northstowe and Wixams are planned to be built.

Vann Molyvann

He supervised the design and construction of new towns such as Tioulongville (Kirirom) and Sihanoukville (Kompong Som) and important town plans such as the Bassac development in Phnom Penh, where a mix of cultural facilities such as the National Theatre Preah Suramarit and the Exhibition Hall neighboured with large housing experiments.