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Similar to all new towns, resort new towns are pitched to young families with children. |
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Similar to all new towns, resort new towns are pitched to young families with children. |
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These photographs were taken in May of
1976.
La Grande Motte was set up for the summer vacation season, but most of the vacationers were not there yet. |
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There are no automobiles at the beach
front.
In this new town design, the beach front is exclusively for housing, dining, walking areas, and hitting the beach. |
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This is a walking area more distant from the beach and adjacent to a street. Note how street lights, planters for vegetation, and benches for sitting are combined into a single repeating unit. The blue posts (left) protect pedestrians from the adjacent automobile traffic. |