Sentence examples for towns built on from inspiring English sources

Hopeful planners sketched out new towns built on higher ground, powered by renewable energy.

In short, why can't we have more small towns built on big city ideas?

The trail takes you through towns built on stilts to avoid storm surges, through wildlife sanctuaries, and to beautiful beaches.

Located south of the Rif Mountains, the city is composed of two formerly separate towns built on separate terraces overlooking a mountain valley.

Or their grandfather was a farmer and, as in so many farm families, ethanol has meant new hope for the fading towns built on corn fields.

These were not towns built on the speculation that soaring home prices would continue forever, like many developments in Florida and on the West Coast.

Environmental campaigns for feed-in tariffs and grassroots movements for transition towns build on the popularity of everyday green activities like household recycling.

Cornwall was a town built on a paper mill, that one operation employing most of his family.

The older town, built on the mountain slope, descends to the French-built sector spread along the road to Algiers and containing the business and industrial quarters.

Bukavu is a ragged, devastated town built on the banks of Lake Kivu in the east of Congo; at one time the Belgian colonisers tried to make it a lakeside retreat, so stunning is the setting.

Austin is a town built on bikes.