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streets in the sky

streets in the sky noun: architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.

Noun

streets in the sky pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.
    • In the UK, the concept of 'streets in the sky' was first developed by the New Brutalist architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, in their widely published entry for the Corporation of London's Golden Lane Competition (1951).2013, Ben Campkin, Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture

Questions about streets in the sky

What does streets in the sky mean?
Streets in the sky means architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.
What part of speech is streets in the sky?
Streets in the sky is a noun.

Words near streets in the sky in the dictionary

  1. streetproofing
  2. streetproofs
  3. streets
  4. streets ahead
  5. streets behind
  6. streets in the sky
  7. Streetsboro
  8. streetscape
  9. streetscapes
  10. streetscaping
  11. streetseller

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