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278 relations: Abu Dhabi, Affordable housing, Al-Maqdisi, Alison and Peter Smithson, Ancient Rome, Apartment, Architecture, Art Deco, Asian Affairs, Augustus, Australia, Aylesbury Estate, Śródmieście, Warsaw, Balfron Tower, Ballymun, Ballymun Flats, Bay mud, Béton brut, Belfast, Belfast City Council, Billionaires' Row, Blobitecture, Bogside, Brill Publishers, British English, Broadwater Farm, Brussels, Brutalist architecture, Building, Cabrini–Green Homes, Cairo, Canary Wharf, Castle Village, Celtic Tiger, Central Europe, Central London, Central Park Tower, City, Clarawood, Classical antiquity, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Compressibility, Concrete, Condominium, Coolock, Cork (city), Council house, Cregagh, Critical regionalism, Czech Republic, ... Expand index (228 more) »
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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (أَبُو ظَبِي) is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.
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Al-Maqdisi
Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (translit; 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (translit) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).
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Alison and Peter Smithson
Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism, especially in architectural and urban theory.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Apartment
An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey.
Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
Asian Affairs
Asian Affairs, the journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, has been published continuously since 1914 (originally as the Journal of the Central Asian Society, and from 1931 to 1969 as the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society).
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Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Aylesbury Estate
The Aylesbury Estate is a large housing estate located in Walworth, South East London.
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Śródmieście, Warsaw
Śródmieście (literally 'City centre') is the central district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland.
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Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower is a 26-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London.
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Ballymun
Ballymun is an outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the northern edge of the Northside, the green-field development of which began in the 1960s to accommodate a housing crisis in inner city areas of Dublin.
Ballymun Flats
The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland.
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Bay mud
Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.
Béton brut
Béton brut is architectural concrete that is left unfinished after being cast, displaying the patterns and seams imprinted on it by the formwork.
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Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
Belfast City Council
Belfast City Council (Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste) is the local authority with responsibility for part of Belfast, the largest city of Northern Ireland.
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Billionaires' Row
Billionaires' Row is the name of a group of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers, and the neighborhood surrounding them, near the southern end of Central Park in the Midtown section of Manhattan in New York City.
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Blobitecture
Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form.
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Bogside
The Bogside is a neighbourhood outside the city walls of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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Broadwater Farm
Broadwater Farm, often referred to simply as "The Farm", is an area in Tottenham, North London, straddling the River Moselle.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era.
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Building
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.
Cabrini–Green Homes
Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Castle Village
Castle Village is a five-building cooperative apartment complex located on Cabrini Boulevard between West 181st and 186th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Celtic Tiger
The "Celtic Tiger" (An Tíogar Ceilteach) is a term referring to the economy of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fuelled by foreign direct investment.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
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Central London
Central London is the innermost part of London, in England, spanning the City of London and several boroughs.
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Central Park Tower
Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street, along Billionaires' Row, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136.
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City
A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
Clarawood
Clarawood is a housing estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992.
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Compressibility
In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility or, if the temperature is held constant, the isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.
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Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.
Condominium
A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners.
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Coolock
Coolock is a large suburban area, centred on a village, on Dublin city's Northside in Ireland.
Cork (city)
Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.
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Council house
A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities.
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Cregagh
Cregagh is an area southeast of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Critical regionalism
Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1948 until 1989, when the country was under communist rule, and was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest.
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Danchi
Danchi (団地, literally "group land") is the Japanese word for a large cluster of apartment buildings or houses of a particular style and design, typically built as public housing by government authorities.
Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism is a postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s.
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Department of Housing
The Department of Housing was an Australian government department with responsibility for housing, including the administration of housing schemes and grants that existed between December 1963 and November 1973.
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Desire Projects
Desire Projects was a housing project located in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Digital architecture
Digital architecture refers to aspects of architecture that feature digital technologies or considers digital platforms as online spaces.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Divis Tower
Divis Tower is a 20-floor, tall tower in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Drogheda
Drogheda (meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin city centre.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Dundalk
Dundalk (Dún Dealgan) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland.
Early skyscrapers
The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York and Chicago.
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Earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Earthquake engineering
Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Egypt in the Middle Ages
Following the Islamic conquest in 641-642, Lower Egypt was ruled at first by governors acting in the name of the Rashidun Caliphs and then the Umayyad Caliphs in Damascus, but in 750 the Umayyads were overthrown.
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Elevator
An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.
Emergency evacuation
Emergency evacuation is an immediate egress or escape of people away from an area that contains an imminent threat, an ongoing threat or a hazard to lives or property.
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Emporis
Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Environmentally friendly
Environment friendly processes, or environmental-friendly processes (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green), are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Falowiec
Falowiec (plural: falowce; from the Polish word fala, wave) is a block of flats characterised by its length and wavy shape.
Fatima Mansions (housing)
Fatima Mansions is an extensive public housing complex located in Rialto, Dublin.
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Feldmeilen
Feldmeilen is a village (Wacht) within the municipality of Meilen in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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Finaghy
Finaghy is an electoral ward in the Balmoral district of Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland.
Fire engine
A fire engine or fire truck is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus.
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Fire sprinkler
A fire sprinkler or sprinkler head is the component of a fire sprinkler system that discharges water when the effects of a fire have been detected, such as when a predetermined temperature has been exceeded.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Foot
The foot (feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates.
Fustat
Fustat (translit), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.
Galway
Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.
Gang
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
Garden city movement
The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Gear
A gear or gearwheel is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with compatible teeth of another gear or other part.
Geotechnical engineering
Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.
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Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.
Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Green belt
A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.
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Green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.
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Grenfell Tower fire
On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours.
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Hackney, London
Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name.
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Hakka people
The Hakka, sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.
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Hangzhou
Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. As of 2022, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 4 trillion yuan (US$590 billion), making it larger than the economy of Sweden.
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.
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Hermopolis
Hermopolis (Ἑρμούπολις Hermoúpolis "the City of Hermes", also Hermopolis Magna, Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μεγάλη Hermoû pólis megálẽ, Eight, Egyptological pronunciation: "Khemenu"; Ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Shmun, and thus The Two Shmun) was a major city in antiquity, located near the boundary between Lower and Upper Egypt.
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High-tech architecture
High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism, is a type of late modernist architecture that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high tech industry and technology into building design.
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Highrise (documentary)
Highrise is a multi-year, multimedia documentary project about life in residential highrises, directed by Katerina Cizek and produced by Gerry Flahive for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
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Historic preservation
Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK) is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.
Housing in Japan
Housing in Japan includes modern and traditional styles.
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Hulme Crescents
Hulme Crescents was a large housing development in the Hulme district of Manchester, England.
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Hunslet Grange Flats
The Hunslet Grange Flats (colloquially known as the Leek Street Flats) was a complex of deck-accessed flats in Hunslet, Leeds.
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Insula (building)
In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island",: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block.
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Intentional community
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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International Style
The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture.
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Interwar period
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).
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Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.
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Keeling House
Keeling House is a 16-storey block of flats located on Claredale Street in Bethnal Green, London, England.
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Khrushchevka
Khrushchevkas (p) are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building and apartments in these buildings, which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s, during the time its namesake Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union.
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Kilbarrack
Kilbarrack (- Church of St. Berach or of young Barra) is a residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, running inwards from the coast, about from the city's centre.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
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La Défense
La Défense is the major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, west of the city limits.
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Ladder
A ladder is a vertical or inclined set of rungs or steps commonly used for climbing or descending.
Large panel system building
The large panel system building is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs.
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Larne
Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory).
Law enforcement
Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, investigating, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
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Leasehold estate
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
Limerick
Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.
List of fires in high-rise buildings
The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.
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List of high-rise façade fires
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London Borough of Newham
The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963.
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough of London, England.
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Low-rise building
A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall or any building that is shorter than a high-rise, though others include the classification of mid-rise. Tower block and low-rise building are apartment types.
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Magirus
Magirus GmbH is a truck manufacturer based in Ulm, Germany, founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus (1824–1895).
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
Marxism–Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.
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Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
Microdistrict
Microdistrict, or microraion (mikrorayon; mikroraion), is a residential complex—a primary structural element of the residential area construction in the Soviet Union and in some post-Soviet and former Socialist states.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district.
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Minaret
A minaret (translit, or translit; minare; translit) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.
Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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Modernism
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
Morphology (architecture and engineering)
Morphology in architecture is the study of the evolution of form within the built environment.
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Mudbrick
Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.
Mullingar
Mullingar is the county town of County Westmeath in Ireland.
Multifamily residential
Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU)) is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. Units can be next to each other (side-by-side units), or stacked on top of each other (top and bottom units).
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Nasir Khusraw
Nasir Khusraw (ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
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National Fire Protection Association
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization devoted to eliminating death, injury, property, and economic loss due to fire, electrical, and related hazards.
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Navan
Navan (meaning "the Cave") is the county town and largest town of County Meath, Ireland.
Neo-futurism
Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture.
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New Classical architecture
New Classical architecture, New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of Classical architecture.
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New Lodge, Belfast
The New Lodge (An Lóiste Nua) is an urban, working class Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, immediately to the north of the city centre.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
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Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu (– 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989.
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Nine Elms
Nine Elms is an area of south-west London, England, within the London Borough of Wandsworth.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Northern and southern China
Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within China.
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Northern Ireland Housing Trust
The Northern Ireland Housing Trust was a public authority which provided public housing in Northern Ireland from 1945 until 1971, when its functions were merged into the newly created Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
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Northern Quarter, Brussels
The Northern Quarter (Quartier Nord or Espace Nord; Noordwijk or Noordruimte) is the central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
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Novelty architecture
Novelty architecture, also called programmatic architecture or mimetic architecture, is a type of architecture in which buildings and other structures are given unusual shapes for purposes such as advertising or to copy other famous buildings without any intention of being authentic.
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Obel Tower
The Obel Tower is a highrise building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, located on Donegall Quay on the River Lagan beside the Lagan Weir.
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
Office
An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization.
Organic architecture
Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world.
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (modern el-Bahnasa).
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Panelák
Panelák is a colloquial term in Czech and Slovak for a large panel system panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete, such as those extant in the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in the world.
Park Hill, Sheffield
Park Hill is a housing estate in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Parkchester, Bronx
Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the central Bronx, New York City.
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Penn South
Penn South, officially known as Mutual Redevelopment Houses and formerly Penn Station South, is a limited-equity on the Penn South website.
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Plan Voisin
The Plan Voisin was a planned redevelopment of Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1925.
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Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.
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Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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Poznań
Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.
Prefabricated building
A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication.
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Prefabrication
Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located.
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Pruitt–Igoe
The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Przymorze Wielkie
Przymorze Wielkie is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk in Poland.
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Public housing
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.
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Public works
Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.
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Quarry Hill, Leeds
Quarry Hill is an area of central Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Quebec City
Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Rathcoole (Newtownabbey)
Rathcoole is a housing estate in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Redevelopment
Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses.
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Reinforced concrete
Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.
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Renting
Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time.
Retail
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.
Revivalism (architecture)
Architectural revivalism is the use of elements that echo the style of a previous architectural era that have or had fallen into disuse or abeyance between their heyday and period of revival.
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Robert Taylor Homes
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007.
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Robin Hood Gardens
Robin Hood Gardens is a residential estate in Poplar, London, designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
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Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
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Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Ronan Point
Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, that partly collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it had opened.
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Roof garden
A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
The Royal Victoria Hospital commonly known as "the Royal", the "RVH" or "the Royal Belfast", is a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Runcorn
Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England.
Samsung Tower Palace
The Samsung Tower Palace is a group of seven towers, lettered A-G. They are located in Dogok-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea.
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano (named after St. Geminianus) is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy.
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Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Sarah Williams Goldhagen (born September 5, 1959) is an American author and architecture critic.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Setback (architecture)
A setback, in the specific sense of a step-back, is a step-like form of a wall or other building frontage, also termed a recession or recessed story.
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Shibam
Shibam Hadramawt (Shibām Ḥaḍramawt) is a town in Yemen.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Singer Building
The Singer Building (also known as the Singer Tower) was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City.
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Single-family detached home
A single-family detached home, also called a single-detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or separate house is a free-standing residential building.
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.
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Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Slum clearance
Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.
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Slum clearance in the United Kingdom
Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.
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Socialist realism
Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.
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Socialist Republic of Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989).
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Solar panel
A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells.
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Southgate Estate
The Southgate Estate was a modernist public housing project located in Runcorn New Town (Cheshire, England) and completed in 1977.
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Southwark
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soviet urban planning ideologies of the 1920s
During the 1920s, Soviet urban planning ideologies established along two competing lines: the urbanist and disurbanist schools.
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St. James Town
St.
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St. Louis
St.
Standpipe (firefighting)
A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water to the fire.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
Steel frame
Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
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Storey
A storey (British English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are storeys (UK) and stories (US).
Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Stratford, London
Stratford is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.
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Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s.
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Structural engineering
Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made structures.
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Structural system
The term structural system or structural frame in structural engineering refers to the load-resisting sub-system of a building or object.
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Structuralism (architecture)
Structuralism is a movement in architecture and urban planning that evolved around the middle of the 20th century.
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Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post–World War II private residential development on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Sustainable architecture
Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings through improved efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development space and the ecosystem at large.
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Sydney central business district
The Sydney central business district (CBD) is the historical and main commercial centre of Sydney.
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Systematization (Romania)
Systematization (Sistematizarea) was a program of urban planning in the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974 to 1989.
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Terraced house
A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Three-Year Plan
The Plan of Reconstructing the Economy (Plan Odbudowy Gospodarki), commonly known as the Three-Year Plan (plan trzyletni) was a centralized plan created by the Polish communist government to rebuild Poland after the devastation of the Second World War.
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Toilet
A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human urine and feces, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal.
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Tour Défense 2000
The Tour Défense 2000 is one of the tallest residential buildings in France.
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Tower house
A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.
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Towers in the park
Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist, Globe and Mail, John Bentley Mays, May 12, 2011 high rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building (a "slab") surrounded by a swath of landscaped land.
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Towers of Bologna
The Towers of Bologna are a group of medieval structures in Bologna, Italy.
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Trellick Tower
Trellick Tower is a Grade II* listed tower block on the Cheltenham Estate in Kensal Town, London.
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Tulou
A tulou, or "earthen building", is a traditional communal Hakka people residence found in Fujian, in South China, usually of a circular configuration surrounding a central shrine, and part of Hakka architecture.
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Unité d'habitation
The Unité d'habitation (Housing Unit) is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso.
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Upper East Side
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded approximately by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park and Fifth Avenue to the west.
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Uppsala University
Uppsala University (UU) (Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
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Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.
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Ville Radieuse
Ville radieuse was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930.
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Vladivostok
Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
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Wasei-eigo
are Japanese-language expressions that are based on English words, or on parts of English phrases, but do not exist in standard English, or do not have the meanings that they have in standard English.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
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Wind engineering
Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
See also
Apartment types
- 5-over-1
- Apartment hotel
- Basement apartment
- Bedsit
- Chambre de bonne
- Classic Seven
- Classic Six
- Cold water flat
- Communal apartment
- Condo hotel
- Condop
- English basement
- Garage apartment
- Hasukjib
- House in multiple occupation
- Loft
- Low-rise building
- Luxury apartment
- M10 (panel building)
- Microapartment
- Officetel
- PH 16
- Penthouse apartment
- Poor door
- Railroad apartment
- Scissor section flat
- Short-term rental
- Single-room occupancy
- Sky villa
- Studio apartment
- Tong lau
- Tower block
- Tower blocks in Great Britain
- WBS 70
- WHH GT 18
Skyscrapers by type
- Moving skyscraper
- Pencil tower
- Plyscraper
- Tower block
- Twin towers
References
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