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单词 tract housing
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Definition of tract housing in US English:

tract housing

noun
  • A type of housing development in which groups of essentially identical houses are built on a tract of subdivided land.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Endless rows of suburban tract housing are sprouting up where corn once grew.
    • This idea of simplicity may have something to do with widespread concerns during the last decade about the lack of architectural involvement in suburban tract housing.
    • Photographs of rows of nondescript suburban tract housing along with an accompanying essay were presented as a magazine spread in Arts Magazine, December 1966.
    • Asphalt radiates solar heat like a stovetop, creating a heat island where farmlands and desert have been paved over to make room for tract housing and some four million vehicles.
    • With that project under its belt, the company was able to exit the tract housing market and break into the expanding school construction arena.
    • As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up.
    • In addition to causing social problems, the spread of tract housing exacerbated a host of environmental ills.
    • There are efficiencies that could translate into more architecture for less money, and it could compete with tract housing as a much higher-quality product.
    • He then began photographing what had become banal suburbia, complete with tract housing, strip malls and gas stations.
    • That means the price of land for suburban tract housing is heading ever upward.
    • Tall house, short setback - it's an all-too-common problem in modern tract housing, and the Hogans faced it too.
    • Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines.
    • The program called for the design of eight houses that would demonstrate modern alternatives to tract housing.
    • But unlike everyday tract housing or conventional strip developments, the Marion Cultural Centre remains a critically reflexive exploration of itself and its context.
    • After adjusting to the exotic environment, the heat, and the realization that what used to be wilderness is now surrounded by tract housing development, the students get to work.
    • Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic.
    • In Vlas, a town just north of Sunny Beach, for example, we saw 200-room hotels under construction, lined up like dominos or suburban tract housing.
    • Investors routinely purchase undeveloped floodplain land for relatively low prices, throw up tract housing and then re-sell each unit at prices greatly inflated by the current housing bubble.
    • Sooner or later, all of this land will be given over to strip malls and tract housing.
    • The surge of construction in the 1990's - dismal ranchettes insinuating themselves on the mountains of Wyoming, tract housing invading farm fields in Ohio - has enlisted a new constituency for change.

Definition of tract housing in US English:

tract housing

noun
North American
  • A type of housing development featuring houses that are all of a similar appearance or design.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines.
    • After adjusting to the exotic environment, the heat, and the realization that what used to be wilderness is now surrounded by tract housing development, the students get to work.
    • This idea of simplicity may have something to do with widespread concerns during the last decade about the lack of architectural involvement in suburban tract housing.
    • Endless rows of suburban tract housing are sprouting up where corn once grew.
    • In Vlas, a town just north of Sunny Beach, for example, we saw 200-room hotels under construction, lined up like dominos or suburban tract housing.
    • Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic.
    • But unlike everyday tract housing or conventional strip developments, the Marion Cultural Centre remains a critically reflexive exploration of itself and its context.
    • The surge of construction in the 1990's - dismal ranchettes insinuating themselves on the mountains of Wyoming, tract housing invading farm fields in Ohio - has enlisted a new constituency for change.
    • Sooner or later, all of this land will be given over to strip malls and tract housing.
    • Asphalt radiates solar heat like a stovetop, creating a heat island where farmlands and desert have been paved over to make room for tract housing and some four million vehicles.
    • In addition to causing social problems, the spread of tract housing exacerbated a host of environmental ills.
    • The program called for the design of eight houses that would demonstrate modern alternatives to tract housing.
    • Photographs of rows of nondescript suburban tract housing along with an accompanying essay were presented as a magazine spread in Arts Magazine, December 1966.
    • That means the price of land for suburban tract housing is heading ever upward.
    • As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up.
    • Tall house, short setback - it's an all-too-common problem in modern tract housing, and the Hogans faced it too.
    • With that project under its belt, the company was able to exit the tract housing market and break into the expanding school construction arena.
    • He then began photographing what had become banal suburbia, complete with tract housing, strip malls and gas stations.
    • Investors routinely purchase undeveloped floodplain land for relatively low prices, throw up tract housing and then re-sell each unit at prices greatly inflated by the current housing bubble.
    • There are efficiencies that could translate into more architecture for less money, and it could compete with tract housing as a much higher-quality product.
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