model villages
Scaled-down settlements display
Model villages are miniature replicas of towns or settlements, built to scale with tiny buildings, streets, and landscapes.
Some are tourist attractions showcasing idealized English villages in painstaking detail: We spent the afternoon at the model village in Bourton-on-the-Water.
The term also refers to planned communities built by industrialists or philanthropists to house workers in improved conditions, like Bournville or Port Sunlight.
- replicaFaithful scaled reproduction
- planned communityPre-designed residential project
- townshipCounty's smaller division
- miniaturesTiny representations of larger things
- miniature railwayScaled-down working train
tiny houses · garden cities · microcosms · settlement · historic preservation · workers' housing · factory towns · company towns · diorama · prototype · housing estates · master plan · social housing · community planning · social experiment · tourist trap · simulation · representations
- miniature buildingsdollhouses, fairy houses, scale replicas, building kits, gingerbread houses
- planned communitiesplanned towns, subdivision, gated community, new towns, master-planned community
- Utopianismutopian communities, ideal societies, ideal society, communal societies, utopianism