Town Belt is the name used for an urban
green belt
A green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges, which ...
in New Zealand. There are several notable town belts in the country:
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Dunedin Town Belt
The Town Belt is a green belt which surrounds the centre of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Covering a total of over , it extends around three sides of the city's centre at a distance from it of some 1-3 km (1-2 mi) in a broad 7 km (4 mi) cresc ...
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Hamilton Town Belt
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Wellington Town Belt
When simply describe as "the Town Belt", the term most commonly applies to Dunedin's town belt, the country's oldest.
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Geography of New Zealand
Belt regions