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- adjective Presenting a new
adaptation of somethingtraditional
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Since then other "neotraditional" developments have been built in places as far-flung as suburban Maryland (Kentlands. also planned by Duany and Plater-Zyberk) and the outskirts of Sacramento, Calif.
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I've just finished Last Harvest by Witold Rybczynski, which is the story of how a piece of land in Pennsylvania was developed according to "neotraditional" principles.
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"neotraditional" and takes great pains to draw links with well known New Urbanist communities like Seaside, Florida or the Kentlands, Maryland, his subdivision shares little with these famous places.
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Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.
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Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.
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Postmodernism began to be superseded by various neotraditional practices in the mid-to-late 1970s, although some of the true postmodernists -- Barth, Coover, Sorrentino -- did continue to produce interesting work on into their literary dotage.
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Though the term was not then in use, Langdon was writing about New Urbanism, a neotraditional school of planning that has since emerged as an influential antidote to suburban sprawl.
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Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.
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But others have created, or recreated, a neotraditional Orthodoxy, embracing a social world anchored by modern-day yeshivas and religious schools and decorated by a bevy of black hats and coats.
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New Urbanism can include neotraditional neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and New Pedestrianism.
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