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New Urbanism 

New urbanist villages contain shopping centers and community centers. Many people may work in the city, but there are job opportunites within the village. Also, not all new urbanism developemnents are built in the suburbs, many redevelopment projects are built in the downtown section of cities as well.
New Urbanism by Sambo982 September 24, 2003
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New Urbanism 

The art of observing a person, place, or thing and concluding it would be better off as a six-storey mixed-use development.
Why would you just build a fire station there when you could but a nice mixed-use development overtop of it? What could go wrong? "-New Urbanism"
New Urbanism by PeptoBismol1 August 16, 2021

New Urbanism 

Urban design movement started in the late 1980 aiming to reform all aspects of real estate development; Movement to make suburbs look like a city without including the amenities
New Urbanism guides development at all scales; I blame New Urbanism for the increase in my taxes.
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