urban space

collocation in English

meaningsofurbanandspace

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɜː.bən/
us
/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/
us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofurbanandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurban space

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The problems of scarcity, in terms ofurbanspaceand resource, were not resolved even after economic reform.
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The urban reformist elites enthusiastically invoked reformative programmes, for example, regulating the disorder ofurbanspaceand "civilizing" people.
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The absence of female unemployed in surviving commentary reflects the gendered occupation ofurbanspace.
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The gender aspects ofurbanspacewere addressed in several theses.
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Two additional anecdotes cast the saint's interaction withurbanspacein a positive light.
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Together with the parliament buildings, they constitute the very city centre and give structure tourbanspace.
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How did these different peoples form a newurbanspace?
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The viewpoint fromurbanspaceis also an attractive feature of this book.
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Reconstruction must take as its starting point theurbanspace, that which can become collective space.
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Other chapters also touch on a similar theme about the relationship between types ofurbanspaceand alternative uses.
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This perception of the estranging effects ofurbanspacerepudiates and challenges the earlier optimism of a collective working-class consciousness generated by the city.
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The architecture and arrangement of these quarters make visible how all these various elements came together to create a new kind ofurbanspace.
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Obviously enough, both questions are closely interrelated, and if civic elites are of interest it is mainly due to their power overurbanspace.
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Public policies to reclaim neighbourhoods perceived to be in decline had a disproportionate impact on minorities, creating conflict over the appropriate use ofurbanspace.
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The concept, ' prisms of belonging ', is meant to capture the ways in which history and memory are embodied and reconfigured inurbanspace.
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Changes in theurbanspacewere profound and some of them were described by travellers.
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He identifies a range of noise abatement strategies in these years which, he argues, reflected dominant middle-class concepts of howurbanspaceshould be regulated.
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Urbanspacehas the potential to become contested when its functions move beyond the physical.
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His previous experience of integratedurbanspacewas of crucial importance: it was his background for analysis and comparison.
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A strong theme emerging from these case-studies is the shaping ofurbanspaceby religious women.
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