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crudscape

crudscape noun: the landscape associated with suburban sprawl.

Noun

crudscape (plural crudscapes)

  1. (derogatory, urban studies) The landscape associated with suburban sprawl.
    • The truth was they had no intention of changing their idiotic zoning laws, or any of the other mechanisms encoded in their building practices that made it impossible to create places worth caring about, and hence they had no chance of solving the spiritual problems engendered by the creeping...1994, The Classicist
    • The scene, with its picturesque backdrop, was serene, lovely, and specific, the antithesis of the grinding anonymous highway crudscape where so much of our national life takes place today.1998 March 26, James Howard Kunstler, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 292

Forms of crudscape

pluralcrudscapes

Origin of crudscape

From crud + -scape. Coined by American urbanist Edward McMahon.

Questions about crudscape

What does crudscape mean?
Crudscape means the landscape associated with suburban sprawl.
What part of speech is crudscape?
Crudscape is a noun.
What is the plural of crudscape?
The plural of crudscape is crudscapes.

Words near crudscape in the dictionary

  1. crudload
  2. crudloads
  3. crudo
  4. crudos
  5. cruds
  6. crudscape
  7. crudscapes
  8. Crudup
  9. Crudups
  10. crudware
  11. crudy

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