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New Urbanism

New Urbanism noun: an urban design movement that originated in the United States in the early 1980s, promoting environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.

Noun

New Urbanism (uncountable)

  1. An urban design movement that originated in the United States in the early 1980s, promoting environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.

Questions about New Urbanism

What does New Urbanism mean?
New Urbanism means an urban design movement that originated in the United States in the early 1980s, promoting environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
What part of speech is New Urbanism?
New Urbanism is a noun.

Words near New Urbanism in the dictionary

  1. new towns
  2. New Tredegar
  3. New Trier
  4. New Ulm
  5. new up
  6. New Urbanism
  7. New Valley
  8. new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
  9. New Village
  10. New Vineyard
  11. New Virginia

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