streetcar suburb

collocation in English

meaningsofstreetcarandsuburb

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streetcar
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstriːt.kɑːr/us
/ˈstriːt.kɑːr/
an electric vehicle that transports people, usually in cities, and goes along metal tracks in ...
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suburb
noun
uk
/ˈsʌb.ɜːb/us
/ˈsʌb.ɝːb/
an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city ...
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(Definition ofstreetcarandsuburbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To the east, the district includes early 20th-century houses built along the trolley right-of-way, forming astreetcarsuburb.
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These plans failed to materialize and the land was developed as astreetcarsuburbin the 1920s.
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Elmwood was astreetcarsuburbthat was developed in the 1900s housing boom following the 1906 earthquake.
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This is an early example of thestreetcarsuburb.
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As such, the term is general and one development called astreetcarsuburbmay vary greatly from others.
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It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-classstreetcarsuburb.
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It was originally astreetcarsuburbin the late 19th century.
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The town's population doubled from 1915 to 1940 as continuedstreetcarsuburbgrowth brought more modern settlers into the community.
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The area was first developed as astreetcarsuburbin the early 20th century, and is thought to be the first community to employ tract housing tactics.
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With the arrival of streetcar suburbs to the north, west, south, and east of the downtown area, residents began to move away.
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The eastside is marked by historic streetcar suburbs built from the 1890s-1930s as havens for the upper middle class.
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Many of the neighbourhoods in these areas were built up as streetcar suburbs and contain many dense and mixed-use streets.
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Such developments became common during the late nineteenth century, particularly in the form of streetcar suburbs.
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Large tracts of these homes exist in older urban neighborhoods, particularly streetcar suburbs, but the design was used everywhere.
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The primarily residential area developed starting in the early-20th century as one of the citys early streetcar suburbs.
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Many of the neighbourhoods in these areas were built up as streetcar suburbs and contain many dense and mixed-use streets, some of which are one-way.
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Unlike railroad suburbs, which tended to form in pockets around stations along the interurban line, streetcar suburbs formed continuous corridors stretching outwards from city cores.
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