Described as a medieval new town founded in 1235, it was also a thriving sea port.
In the 1960s Preston built roads and otherwise prepared for a new town that never happened.
Another resident said she thought the new town would be feasible "providing the road systems were OK".
In a city that is bereft of old-fashioned meeting places, bookshops are becoming the new town squares.
One, on the A428, near the Bedfordshire village of Turvey, is about 13 miles from the new town's centre.
In a beautiful New Town room we find macho, well-executed, cheap-cuts-and-offal cooking.
It is the new Town Square where people gather and can now experience truly great food, wine, cocktails, and atmosphere.
This Labour seat is based on the post-war new town of East Kilbride south of Glasgow - the oldest in Scotland.
The Harlow Art Trust commissioned the sculpture of a mother, father and child when the new town was being designed and built.
Palermo's best budget hotel, Ariston is located in an unassuming block in a prime location between the old and new town.
The government will set up a special fund in banks to allow for low-cost mortgages for homebuyers in the new town, he said.
Earlier in the day, Berlusconi pledged to build a new town to house the thousands of people left homeless by Monday's deadly earthquake.
It was Israel's decision to set about the creation of this new town in occupied Jerusalem that first brought negotiations to a stop.
It was tapped to build a new town adjacent to Macau.
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The new town is one of the largest and most ambitious modern urban projects built in Africa in the 20th century and probably the most complete.
Developers Mayfield Market Towns said a new town would create up to 10, 000 jobs and help meet future housing needs in Brighton, Crawley, Burgess Hill and Horsham.
It turned into a grueling assignment all 12 of the group came down with dysentery and were plagued by lice but Ruan's plan for an adjacent new town was accepted.
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The original proposal included provision for 400 flats, a hotel, restaurant and leisure facilities, shops and offices, as well as a new town square and parking for 1, 000 cars.
His venue this summer will join the Underbelly, Gilded Balloon and the Pleasance in the area, cementing the shift of major venues over the years from the New Town.
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On his return to Hong Kong 10 years later, his father's rice paddy was paved over and his old neighborhood had become a dormitory suburb called Fanling New Town.
The new town is part of the East Devon Growth Point plan by the county council, East Devon District Council, Exeter City Council and the Homes and Community Agency.
When all is finished, there will be no record of the turbulence and pain which have accompanied the disappearance of White Horse Village and the birth of Wuxi New Town.
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Trust spokesman John Oliver told BBC News the additional staff would be able to provide a "conventional" ambulance station service for the growing local community at the new town of Cranbrook.
Start with a couple of days in elegant Edinburgh to revel in the Georgian architecture of New Town and the history of Edinburgh Castle, which broods silently over the city from its craggy perch.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday pledged to build a new town to house the thousands of people left homeless in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome but for many the problems lie in the more immediate future.
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