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New Town, new town
A planned urban area designed to ease the congestion of a nearby large city, usu. one with special provision for housing, employment, and amenities for a delimited population. Also transf. Also attrib., as New Town blues, despondency or anxiety suffered by a person resident in a New Town. Hence New Towner; New-Townish a.
1918(title) New towns after the war. 1946Hansard Commons 17 Apr. 2710 New Towns Bill ‘to provide for the creation of new towns by means of development corporations, and for purposes connected therewith’ presented by Mr. Silkin. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xxiii. 266 The little house on the outer rim of the ‘new’ town. 1958Engineering 21 Feb. 227/1 Suburban railway peak problems could be eased by more New Towns. 1958Spectator 8 Aug. 191/1 An immense new-town bicycle shed. 1958Listener 23 Oct. 655/2 His analysis of the Hellenistic ‘new town’, Priene. 1959Manch. Guardian 6 Aug. 4/2 The new-town voters. 1960News Chron. 2 July 3/5 He was born in St. Pancras, London, and is now a Hemel Hempstead new towner. 1962Britannica Bk. of Year 546/1 In Great Britain a topical term was New Town Blues, used to describe the dissatisfied, discontented condition of people from large cities who found the recreational amenities of the new towns inadequate. 1962Harper's Bazaar Aug. 58/1 Castries, the capital..is entirely modern and rather New-Townish. 1964Daily Tel. 4 Feb. 14/2 The new environment, though brighter, cleaner and more commodious, is said to lack the social attraction of the old. Hence the so-called complaint of the ‘new town blues’. 1965Economist 6 Nov. p. x/2 New towners also pay rates at the level set by the local authorities in whose territory they lie. 1970Americana Ann. 176 The high hopes that ‘new towns’..could provide a solution to congestion, high population densities, and the erosion of public services have collapsed. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 174 A visit to one or more of the new towns is essential to anyone interested in architecture and environment. 1973Guardian 30 May 7/1 The fears of the old-towners are certainly understandable. The population has declined... Runcorn new town has been growing. 1975Ibid. 20 Jan. 15 Milton Keynes..is the latest (possibly the final?) refinement of new town theory. |