urban fabric
collocation in Englishmeaningsofurbanandfabric
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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɜː.bən/us/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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fabric
noun
uk/ˈfæb.rɪk/us/ˈfæb.rɪk/
cloth or material for making clothes, covering ...
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(Definition ofurbanandfabricfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofurban fabric
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This destruction was just one tear in theurbanfabricthat can make a city unrecognizable.
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Theurbanfabricis spread so thinly over so vast an area that the majority of streets have lost all potential to tease our senses.
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The bottom-up urban grammar developed is then described, and a hand derivation of the existingurbanfabricis proposed.
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Such opinions ignore new observed patterns, which correlate electronic nodes to physical nodes in the pedestrianurbanfabric.
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All that is largely gone from theurbanfabric.
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Over some years there has emerged a small number of studies of the effects of colonialism on cities and theurbanfabric.
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Within each part the chapters are arranged thematically covering such topics as trade and manufacture, theurbanfabric, family life, education and town government.
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The jury had doubts about the functionality of my basic solution for theurbanfabricwithin the townscape.
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Low-tech, citizeninitiated solutions might blossom throughout the city, contributing variety and diversity to theurbanfabric.
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They respond both to theurbanfabricin which they are situated and to new patterns of social life.
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Nor does it provide the contemporary architect with obvious strategies for the shaping and re-ordering of theurbanfabric.
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The premises are depicted as an integral piece of a well-establishedurbanfabricrather than an agent in the redefinition of the townscape.
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Ideally, the generation process embedded into the grammar should replicate the actual evolution of theurbanfabric.
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So the residential neighbourhoods are designated with family names that create the clusters that shape theurbanfabric.
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In these designed landscapes the void remains void within theurbanfabric; it retains the illusion of the horizon for modern urbanites.
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The failure of planning illustrated in this article is not of protecting the ancienturbanfabric, but of coming up with a viable modern solution.
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I remember you saying then that there is as much spatial variation in the forest as in theurbanfabric: narrow parts and wide parts.
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An illuminating chapter on theurbanfabricidentifies the forces which often nullified attempts to rearrange urban geography or to create socially segregated quarters.
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The second section treats ' the challenges of change ' as embodied in transformations of theurbanfabric, the evolution of poor relief policy and the struggle to maintain order.
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