suburban development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsuburbananddevelopment
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suburban
adjective
uk/səˈbɜː.bən/us/səˈbɝː.bən/
relating to ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofsuburbananddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As more civic building occurs, coupled with slowersuburbandevelopment, there will be greater public focus on the rebuilding of the city.
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What remains of the village today is included in a sprawlingsuburbandevelopment.
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The survival of the old centre was not just an oversight ofsuburbandevelopmentand benign civic neglect.
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Less commonly attempted but no more successful were state efforts to controlsuburbandevelopment.
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Suburbandevelopmentis introduced, and twentieth-century changes in relation to slums, new housing and modern development.
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His vision of the spatial configurations that underpin a socialist utopia adopts the basic impetus ofsuburbandevelopmentand turns it into an ideal rather than an environmental disaster.
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Suburbandevelopmentwas also started in 1899 for the purpose of relieving congestion to the south.
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To achieve their goals, outlying governments adapted to the needs ofsuburbandevelopmentby increasing taxing powers, raising debt limits and facilitating the ability to finance improvements in infrastructure.
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It is a district where the land is not very dear or very cheap, but a normal, ordinary kind ofsuburbandevelopment.
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Around them were areas in which there was expensivesuburbandevelopmentfor owner-occupation.
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Let us not pretend: those people will not have proper access to trains and buses if that kind ofsuburbandevelopmentis encouraged.
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Biodiversity is endangered by many factors, for example, climate change, uncontrolledsuburbandevelopmentand invasive alien species.
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It is even obvious to me that the level crossing was constructed because the intention was to build a station to serve the newsuburbandevelopment.
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As a well-preserved collection of early-to-mid-20th century residences, the historic district evokes the measured spread ofsuburbandevelopmentthat paralleled the citys steady growth.
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He was responsible for buying up farmland and subdividing the property into asuburbandevelopment.
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The route continues north through woodedsuburbandevelopment.
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Rapid expansion following the pattern of rural exodus has resulted in considerable rebuilding in the city centre and mushrooming ofsuburbandevelopmentelsewhere.
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This opened the island to massive unplanned and unregulated urban andsuburbandevelopment, including many weekend homes, especially along the northern and eastern coasts.
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This is different fromsuburbandevelopmentwhere cul-de-sacs often leave houses backing onto the street.
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They were built between 1901 and 1924 and developed as a planned, middle-classsuburbandevelopment.
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