单词 | compact city |
释义 | > as lemmasCompact City Compact City n. (also with lower-case initial) Town Planning (originally U.S.) an urban area with clearly defined boundaries, in which the residential and commercial districts are relatively close together, forestalling the development of rural land and reducing the need to commute by car. ΚΠ 1933 W. S. Thompson & P. K. Whelpton Population Trends in U.S. i. 40 Closely knit businesses of enormous size can now be made up of relatively small units,..so grouped that people need not live in the huge compact cities of today. 1973 G. B. Dantzig & T. L. Saaty Compact City i. 11 The new, Compact City..would be economically inexpensive to build and maintain, yet spacious... In the Compact City..there would, of course, be no suburban sprawl, freeways, traffic, smog, or other forms of urban blight. 1995 Independent 20 Feb. 18 (headline) Looking forward to Compact City. < as lemmas |
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