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New Urbanism

Scope note

Use for the planning movement in the United States of the 1990s espousing a return to traditional small-town design features for newly constructed suburbs or redeveloped urban neighborhoods. To describe the architectural elements of the movement, incorporating such features as pedestrian spaces, mass transit, and mixed land use, use "Neotraditional."

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000259487

Term used for

Urbanism, New

Created

13yrs ago

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