Definitions for "TND"
The ISO currency code for the Tunisian Dinar.
In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Tunisian Dinar.
Traditional Neighborhood Design. Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) developments typically include neighborhood centers and parks, mix of uses, and pedestrian and bike facilities. A Traditional Neighborhood District ordinance mandates some combination of these planning characteristics. A TND ordinance might, for example, call for neighborhood centers which include commercial, retail, restaurant and offices uses, multifamily housing and a neighborhood square; mixed residential areas of single family duplexes, townhouses, and multifamily dwellings along with small-scale commercial uses; and single-family housing similar to that in conventional development subdivisions in areas adjacent to typical single family development. Many zoning ordinances don't allow for the construction of walkable, mixed use neighborhoods; to build a new traditiona
Traditional neighborhood development. A basic unit of the New Urbanism which contains a center that includes a public space and commercial enterprise; an identifiable edge, ideally a five minute walk from the center; a mix of activities and variety of housing types; an interconnected network of streets usually in a grid pattern, high priority of public space, with prominently located civic buildings and open space that includes parks, plazas, squares.
Traditional Neighborhood Development. Refers to a style of urban or suburban development, evolving since the 1970s that revisits many of the features of urban neighborhoods of 50 to 100 years ago. Variously called "neotraditional" development or "urban villages," the most distinguishable feature of TND is the continuous fabric of intimately blended land uses, arranged so that travel between them can be made by a variety of methods (walk, bicycle, transit, taxi) in addition to the usual privately-operated auto.