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meanwhile space

meanwhile space noun: a vacant or underused property that is temporarily occupied for a beneficial use before future redevelopment; spaces used for short-term purposes, such as pop-up shops, art studios, community gardens, or affordable housing, to generate value and support local communities.

Noun

meanwhile space (plural meanwhile spaces)

  1. A vacant or underused property that is temporarily occupied for a beneficial use before future redevelopment; spaces used for short-term purposes, such as pop-up shops, art studios, community gardens, or affordable housing, to generate value and support local communities.
    • The past years has seen a fluorescence of meanwhile spaces in cities throughout the UK, particularly in London. Meanwhile spaces are explicitly and intentionally time-limited in nature. A selection of meanwhile space projects in London is used here to stimulate a brief discussion about the place of...2013, Milliken, Sarah, “Meanwhile Spaces”, in ResearchGate
    Synonyms:
    meanwhile site

Synonyms of meanwhile space

Forms of meanwhile space

pluralmeanwhile spaces

Origin of meanwhile space

Coined in the United Kingdom from meanwhile + space. [21st c.]

Questions about meanwhile space

What does meanwhile space mean?
Meanwhile space means a vacant or underused property that is temporarily occupied for a beneficial use before future redevelopment; spaces used for short-term purposes, such as pop-up shops, art studios, community gardens, or affordable housing, to generate value and support local communities.
What part of speech is meanwhile space?
Meanwhile space is a noun.
What is the plural of meanwhile space?
The plural of meanwhile space is meanwhile spaces.

Words near meanwhile space in the dictionary

  1. meantones
  2. meanwhile
  3. meanwhile garden
  4. meanwhile site
  5. meanwhile sites
  6. meanwhile space
  7. meanwhile spaces
  8. meanwhile use
  9. meanwhile uses
  10. meanwhiles
  11. meanwhilst

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