Example sentences of "[art] new town " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |
| 2 | While the new towns of the south have the most fickle vote , as skilled working class voters change from being C2s to Ds when they lose their jobs , the coast offers a strange picture of unresisted decay . |
| 3 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 4 | The eventual appointment , in June 1957 , was a compromise between the two : a tutor-organiser to work with trade unionists and industrial personnel over the District as a whole , but with emphasis on the New Towns in one of which he would live . |
| 5 | How large are the New Towns ? |
| 6 | Many are attracted to more pleasant housing in the New Towns which are being built . |
| 7 | D. In the new factories of the New Towns and the outskirts of Glasgow the products are mainly of small size and high value . |
| 8 | Most of the New Towns are also dormitories for many commuters who work in Glasgow . |
| 9 | From which places do you think most of the people in the New Towns will have come ? |
| 10 | Which age group do the New Towns attract most strongly ? |
| 11 | First , although it was always assumed that many from the older urban cores would be rehoused in the new towns , early evidence ( Heraud , 1966 ) shows that it tended to be the better-housed suburbanites who moved , few from the inner cities even knowing of the programme . |
| 12 | Companies unwilling to move to the older regions had the option of moving to the new towns . |
| 13 | From the mid-1970s , the Docklands were given equal priority with the new towns ; after 1977 they were given a higher status . |
| 14 | Dupree attributes greater road safety in the new towns to their being the trend-setters for many transport innovations : |
| 15 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 16 | After all , the new towns have been built in a car-familiar age and do not have accident rates inflated by large numbers of pre-car districts of great traffic danger . |
| 17 | In urban Britain outside the new towns , networks of pedestrianised routes that might connect such shopping areas with housing scarcely exist . |
| 18 | Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns . |
| 19 | By April 1982 , R.S. had received the freehold title for its site from the Commission for the New Towns . |
| 20 | However , Stevenage — within Hertfordshire — still had ‘ new town ’ status at this time and development in the town was under the control of the Stevenage Development Corporation ( now transferred to the Commission for the New Towns ) . |
| 21 | The new towns did well : Stevenage , for example , rose from 123rd in 1951 to 86th in 1971 , Basildon from 122nd to 75th . |
| 22 | In contrast , new and expanded towns experienced the greatest declines in growth rate , confirming that the new towns are mostly no longer new nor are they so fertile . |
| 23 | For while by enfranchising the new towns it gave the commercial middle class , and with it the master-manufacturers , a say on the conduct of Government , it totally disenfranchised the working man . |
| 24 | Background material for the Development Zone release outlined earlier might include the full text of the minister 's speech , the government leaflet setting out details of the Development Zone scheme , a complete list the benefits to be gained by businesses from setting in Tadchester , and a list of addresses of relevant officials within the local council , the New Towns Commission and Tadchester Industrial Development Centre 0 might be able to help industrialists to take the decision to move . |
| 25 | It was not a New Town under the New Towns Act created through the agency of a Development Corporation , and it was never intended that it should be . |
| 26 | This was , as you can tell from the name , a bastide , or one of the new towns of the thirteenth century . |
| 27 | In the industrial counties such as Lancashire the new towns called for entirely new turnpike roads between them , and the old road pattern was more drastically altered . |
| 28 | Down in Cornwall , it was difficult to attract the natives into the new towns at all . |
| 29 | After all , the planning policies of the earlier postwar period were explicitly designed to reduce congestion and overcrowding in these areas by decanting lower-paid people to the New Towns and redeveloping the inner areas at lower density . |
| 30 | To some degree these conditions are already being experienced in Britain ; in central Scotland , along the M4 corridor , and around some of the New Towns — and if they continue to develop , then Warner 's ( 1974 , 315 ) forecast will certainly come true : |