12:21 Mar 15, 2012 |
Dutch to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Architecture / urban planning | |||||||
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3 +1 | Ribbon Development |
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4 -1 | Housing Estate |
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3 | cul-de-sac neighbourhoods |
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Tract housing |
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Housing Estate Explanation: I can't really see anything against "housing estate" - because that's what this is. We had the same popping up all over the UK in the seventies. Large extensions of towns and cities purely for thousands of identical houses. |
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Ribbon Development Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_development Ribbon development means building houses along the routes of communications radiating from a human settlement. Such development generated great concern in the United Kingdom during the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as in numerous other countries. Page 40 last paragraph talks about the 'cauliflower' structure and Ribbon development. http://www.localgov.gov.tt/devplanning/SF_SS_Mar09.pdf …can be called a “cauliflower”. This structure works well to ensure that non-local traffic can bypass these neighbourhoods. Furthermore, promoting other modes of… The principal disadvantage of this structure is that… Because of the former ribbon development along these roads it is nearly impossible… |
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