Sentence examples for model towns from inspiring English sources

In essence a classical city, the show is similar in temperament to the model towns depicted by Renaissance painters.

I was starting to see how Burton's movies linked together visually: the model towns, the holes in the roofs, the black-and-white stripes.

In a sharp-tongued, lengthy article in Scribner's Magazine (July 1916), Atterbury wrote that "model towns in America most closely resemble the renowned chapter on snakes in Iceland; for, with but one or two exceptions, there are none".

As a corporation like any other, it could be compared with old-school capitalist enterprises that cared for their loyal workers, maybe even built "model towns" for them to live in.

To that end, China's official news agency Xinhua has reported, it hopes to have 100 model cities, 200 model counties, 1,000 model districts and 10,000 model towns by 2015.

With the construction of the Aswan High Dam (1959 70) and the creation of Lake Nasser, more than 60,000 Nubian Egyptians were resettled from their flooded homes in villages and model towns around the valley on lands reclaimed from the desert.

One of Disney's dreams, Pilkington writes, was "to build a model town".

Coalwood was, in many respects, a model town, unique in the West Virginia mining industry.

From an environmental disaster zone, Devecser has become a model town for sustainable energy.

"The best place to bring a model town into place is Falluja," Colonel Ballard said.

A train set, a model town hall, a player piano that bursts into unexpected harmony.