new town

noun

(sometimes initial capital letters) a comprehensively planned, self-sufficient urban community that provides housing, educational, recreational, and commercial facilities and often serves to absorb residents from a nearby overcrowded metropolis.

new town

(in Britain) a town that has been planned as a complete unit and built with government sponsorship, esp to accommodate overspill population

First recorded in 1915–20

“This is home now,” Maria Grazia Visconti told The Daily Beast as she walked her dog along one of the “new town” streets.

He surveyed the available newspapers whenever he arrived in a new town.

Following the castle terrace, we will descend towards the new town, and come out at the west of Princes Street.

The new town extends below the old one and is closer to the right bank of the Rhone.

Two years later the new town of Johnston was formed out of Providence and named after the attorney-general.

Nezahualcoyotl is also said to have founded a new town in this region, and sent colonists from Tezcuco to dwell in it.

It is known, however, that he lived in baronial style in his new town.

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