A way of fostering a community by basing its plan on an old European village, with homes and businesses clustered together. Residents can walk to shops, businesses, theatres, schools, parks, and other important services. It is a movement ‘intent on improving quality of life in cities by changing urban form’; McCann in R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (2009). This movement, according to Talen (1999) Urb. Studs 36, 8, 1361 ‘lives by an unswerving belief in the ability of the built environment to create a “sense of community”’. Read her review of this belief.