neotraditional love

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  • adjective Presenting a new adaptation of something traditional

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neo- +‎ traditional

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Examples

  • 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.

    Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream 2008

  • 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.

    Quick note rather than a real review. bradamant 2007

  • "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.

    The Goodspeed Update 2009

  • Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Postmodernism began to be superseded by various neotraditional practices in the mid-to-late 1970s, although some of the true postmodernists -- Barth, Coover, Sorrentino -- did continue to produce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.

    Realism in Fiction 2008

  • 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.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • Detractors deride these historical influences as “neotraditional” and “nostalgic,” but a sense of continuity with the past is precisely what appeals to home buyers.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • 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.

    Philip N. Cohen: The World That Sabta Made 2009

  • New Urbanism can include neotraditional neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and New Pedestrianism.

    2009 May 06 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

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