green space

collocation in English

meaningsofgreenandspace

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green
adjective
uk
/ɡriːn/
us
/ɡriːn/
of a colour between blue and yellow; of the colour ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/
us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofgreenandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgreen space

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The urban zone is mainly a residential one with littlegreenspace.
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An epidemic of violence was enhanced by an urban design that physically removed residents from observing the street andgreenspace, allowing illicit acts to flourish.
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Bovisa became an area of high traffic pollution with the lowest level ofgreenspaceper person in the city.
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Various community characteristics, such as housing quality, types of advertising, amount ofgreenspace, crowds, recreational facilities, number of street lights, and so forth were noted on the protocol.
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Answers must be found to the challenges of transport, housing, suburbanisation andgreenspace.
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With a little imagination in the planning process,greenspaceis protected for the people.
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One of the great joys of urban life is the conjunction ofgreenspace, open space and water.
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We need an urban parks andgreenspaceagency.
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The provision ofgreenspaceand parkland has been recognised belatedly as an important part of urban design and land-use planning.
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There is moregreenspacein the city than in many urban areas.
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He is very concerned with the loss ofgreenspace.
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Thisgreenspacehas been used for those very purposes for the best part of a century.
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There is littlegreenspacefor the whole dense area.
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It is seen in drab, grey streets, without a tree or agreenspacein sight.
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In fact, it is very difficult to find anygreenspaceleft in my constituency.
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For instance, in the western end of the borough there are some 3,000 acres of woodland and opengreenspace.
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This is because my constituency has plenty ofgreenspaceleft undeveloped where gipsies can come and camp.
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It is very unfortunate that so muchgreenspacewas set aside, never to be recovered once it had been built on.
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They see it as filling thegreenspacebetween villages.
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People badly needgreenspacein which to walk and watch wildlife.
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