Encouraged by local developer Tom Kennedy, New Urbanist architect Robert Orr proposed a series of charettes for the redevelopment of Lynn's waterfront in conjunction with Lynnfield Engineering.

New Urbanist town planners use the term transect to refer to the varieties of land use from an urban core to a rural boundary.

The CNU has grown to more than 3, 000 members, and is the leading international organization promoting New Urbanist design principles.

And while the conventional approach to growth remains dominant, New Urbanist principles have become increasingly influential in the fields of planning, architecture, and public policy.

More than six hundred new towns, villages, and neighborhoods in the U. S. following New Urbanist principles are planned or under construction.

In Maryland and several other states, New Urbanist principles are an integral part of smart growth legislation.

The Cotton District in Starkville, Mississippi, was the first New Urbanist development, begun in 1968 long before the New Urbanism movement was organized.

Seaside, Florida, the first fully New Urbanist town, began development in 1981 on eighty acres ( 324, 000 m² ) of Florida Panhandle coastline.

Mountain House, one of the latest New Urbanist projects in the United States, is a new town located near Tracy, California.

Mesa del Sol, New Mexico — the largest New Urbanist project in the United States — was designed by architect Peter Calthorpe, and is being developed by Forest City Enterprises.

There are many developments around the world that follow New Urbanist principles to a greater or lesser extent:

* Orchid Bay, Belize, is one of the largest New Urbanist projects in Central America and the Caribbean.

* McKenzie Towne is a New Urbanist development which commenced in 1995 by Carma Developers LP in Calgary and has an expected completion of 2011.

* Jakriborg, in Southern Sweden, is a recent example of the New Urbanist movement.

In the United Kingdom New Urbanist and European urbanism principles are practised and taught by the The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.

Critics claim that the effectiveness of the New Urbanist solution of mixed income developments lacks statistical evidence.

The New Urbanist preference for ' permeable ' street grids has been criticised on the grounds that it gives private motor vehicles an advantage over walking, cycling and public transport.

The transport performance of some New Urbanist developments, such as Poundbury, has been disappointing, with surveys revealing high levels of car use.

A forthcoming rating system for neighborhood environmental design, LEED-ND, being developed by the U. S. Green Building Council, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Congress for the New Urbanism, should help to quantify the sustainability of New Urbanist neighborhood design.

New Urbanist and board member of CNU, Doug Farr has taken a step further and coined Sustainable Urbanism, which combines New Urbanism and LEED-ND to create walkable, transit-served urbanism with high performance buildings and infrastructure.

* Orenco Station, Oregon ( New Urbanist transit-oriented development )

The new interchange among the four Los Angeles freeways, including the grade-constructed accesses, occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land, one-eighth of a square mile, an area about the size of Rockefeller Center in New York.

New arable land makes more food, and can reduce starvation.

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

The lighthouse and its grounds are New South Wales territory, but cut off from the rest of the state by the strip of ACT land.

* 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In total, Côte d ' Ivoire comprises 322, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, of which 318, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is land and 4, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the U. S. state of New Mexico, or about the size of Germany.

However, Corky Gonzales and Reies Tijerina stirred up old tensions about New Mexican land claims with roots going back to before the Mexican-American War.

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.

Small portions of Delaware are also situated on the eastern side of the Delaware River sharing land boundaries with New Jersey.

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

In addition to its campus in Hanover, Dartmouth owns of Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountains Region and a tract of land in northern New Hampshire known as the Second College Grant.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

* The African Hebrew Israelites: New black civilisation in the promised land " article written by Lester Holloway, January 1, 2004, for Black Information Link

In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory.

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

New York, which had also issued land grants that overlapped some of those sold by Wentworth, insisted that holders of the Wentworth grants pay a fee to New York to have their grants validated.

Allen, after being promised land, traveled to the area and began stirring up not just Pennsylvania authorities but also his long-time nemesis, Governor Clinton of New York, by proposing that a new state be carved out of the disputed area and several counties of New York.