Definition of quarter-acre block in English:

quarter-acre block

noun

Australian, NZ

A standard plot of land for a suburban house.
people wanted a house of good size on a quarter-acre block
Example sentencesExamples
- You're living the Australian Dream and have a quarter-acre block.
- The Australian dream may be a quarter-acre block but more than three million Australians currently live in strata title units.
- We moved from quarter-acre blocks to McMansions without backyards and 6-pack apartment blocks.
- If I buy a quarter-acre block in Streaky Bay, there's lots of things I can't do on that.
- A paradox of Australia's fixation on single dwellings on a quarter-acre block, is that so many Australians love Paris and New York and other cities with much higher densities than those of our state capitals.
- The architectural theorist described suburban culture—with its dream of an endless distribution of tidy family homes on their quarter-acre blocks—as "arborophobic".
- In effect, urban consolidation has meant concentrated development of apartment blocks, townhouses and villas in streets where the quarter-acre block has long held sway.
- The twentieth-century suburbs, with their grid-patterned streets and detached houses on quarter-acre blocks, were as different as possible from old city neighbourhoods.
- She argues that the 1950s suburban ideal of a large dwelling on a quarter-acre block has become financially and environmentally unsustainable.
- Some buyers are skipping the steps between couch-surfing and ownership of the quarter-acre block—instead buying straight into the apartment market.

单词	quarter-acre block
释义	Definition of quarter-acre block in English: quarter-acre block noun Australian, NZ A standard plot of land for a suburban house. people wanted a house of good size on a quarter-acre block Example sentencesExamples You're living the Australian Dream and have a quarter-acre block. The Australian dream may be a quarter-acre block but more than three million Australians currently live in strata title units. We moved from quarter-acre blocks to McMansions without backyards and 6-pack apartment blocks. If I buy a quarter-acre block in Streaky Bay, there's lots of things I can't do on that. A paradox of Australia's fixation on single dwellings on a quarter-acre block, is that so many Australians love Paris and New York and other cities with much higher densities than those of our state capitals. The architectural theorist described suburban culture—with its dream of an endless distribution of tidy family homes on their quarter-acre blocks—as "arborophobic". In effect, urban consolidation has meant concentrated development of apartment blocks, townhouses and villas in streets where the quarter-acre block has long held sway. The twentieth-century suburbs, with their grid-patterned streets and detached houses on quarter-acre blocks, were as different as possible from old city neighbourhoods. She argues that the 1950s suburban ideal of a large dwelling on a quarter-acre block has become financially and environmentally unsustainable. Some buyers are skipping the steps between couch-surfing and ownership of the quarter-acre block—instead buying straight into the apartment market.
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