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单词 urbanscape
释义

urbanscapen.

Brit. /ˈəːb(ə)nskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈərbənˌskeɪp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: urban adj., -scape comb. form.
Etymology: < urban adj. + -scape comb. form.
The urban landscape; the appearance or layout of an urban area. Cf. cityscape n., townscape n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town- or city-scape
cityscape1856
townscape1867
built environment1942
urbanscape1958
1958 J. P. Robin in Proc. 86th Ann. Meeting Fairmount Park Art Assoc. (Philadelphia) 16 Here in cities, we can talk happily with Lewis Mumford of super-blocks to make the urbanscape more pleasing.
1964 Los Angeles Times 6 Sept. (Calendar section) 3/3 A perfect lesson in how a large, decent hunk of architecture can be blurred out of the urbanscape by having a small, ugly structure for a neighbor.
1985 K. Starr Inventing Dream (1986) iii. 71 Electrical mass transit had made a new sort of urbanscape possible.
2008 Guardian 30 Jan. (Society section) 2/1 A proposal that will either revitalise a dormant area of the Old Town or demonstrate the triumph of mammon over a venerable urbanscape.., depending on your point of view.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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