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Haussmannizations

Haussmannizations is the plural of Haussmannization.

Meaning of Haussmannization

Noun

Haussmannization (plural Haussmannizations)

  1. The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.
    • In second place, the Haussmannization or evisceration of the central quarters of numerous European cities did not solve the problem of mass housing or provide for the kind of egalitarian distribution of urban resources CIAM proposed.1989, James Holston, chapter 2, in The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 48

Questions about Haussmannizations

What is Haussmannizations the plural of?
Haussmannizations is the plural of Haussmannization.

Words near Haussmannizations in the dictionary

  1. hausse-cols
  2. hausses
  3. Haussmann
  4. Haussmannian
  5. Haussmannization
  6. Haussmannizations
  7. Haussmannize
  8. Haussmannized
  9. Haussmannizes
  10. Haussmannizing
  11. haustella

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