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anticity |
hostile, opposed, or causing harm to urban environments. |
antiurban |
combined form of urban. |
beltway |
a highway that circles or skirts an urban area. |
brownstone |
a house built of or faced with this stone, esp. an urban rowhouse. [1/2 definitions] |
Centella |
a small creeping plant used in herbal medicine, also called urban spadeleaf, gotu kola, or Asiatic pennywort. [1/2 definitions] |
Central Park |
the first urban park in the U.S., developed in 1873, located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. |
citify |
to accustom to city life; cause to adopt urban manners and styles. |
cliff dweller |
(informal) a person who lives in a many-storied urban apartment house. [1/2 definitions] |
conurbation |
a large urban area composed of cities and suburbs that have grown and merged together. |
HUD |
abbreviation of "Housing and Urban Development." |
landscape architecture |
the art or profession of planning or changing rural or urban land for a desired effect, often both practical and aesthetic. |
metropolis |
any major urban area; city. |
metropolitan |
of, pertaining to, or designating a major city, its suburbs, and other neighboring communities; urban. [1/7 definitions] |
mews |
urban stables or carriage houses, esp. in England, that were built along an alley or grouped around a court, many of which have subsequently been converted into small houses or apartments. |
neon |
(informal) characteristic of a gaudy urban nightlife area; cheap, colorful, and tawdry. [1/5 definitions] |
nonurban |
combined form of urban. |
provincialism |
narrow-mindedness, lack of sophistication, or the like, associated with or considered the result of remoteness from urban centers of culture and intellectual activity. [1/2 definitions] |
redevelop |
to restore or rebuild (an urban area, neighborhood, or the like). [1/2 definitions] |
superblock |
an urban area, much larger than a city block, usu. closed to traffic, and having residences and commercial, social, and recreational facilities. |
tenement house |
an overcrowded, usu. run-down apartment building, esp. one in a slum area of an urban region. |
town |
an urban area. [1/4 definitions] |
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