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Definition of tract housing in US English: tract housingnoun A type of housing development in which groups of essentially identical houses are built on a tract of subdivided land. Example sentencesExamples - Endless rows of suburban tract housing are sprouting up where corn once grew.
- This idea of simplicity may have something to do with widespread concerns during the last decade about the lack of architectural involvement in suburban tract housing.
- Photographs of rows of nondescript suburban tract housing along with an accompanying essay were presented as a magazine spread in Arts Magazine, December 1966.
- Asphalt radiates solar heat like a stovetop, creating a heat island where farmlands and desert have been paved over to make room for tract housing and some four million vehicles.
- With that project under its belt, the company was able to exit the tract housing market and break into the expanding school construction arena.
- As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up.
- In addition to causing social problems, the spread of tract housing exacerbated a host of environmental ills.
- There are efficiencies that could translate into more architecture for less money, and it could compete with tract housing as a much higher-quality product.
- He then began photographing what had become banal suburbia, complete with tract housing, strip malls and gas stations.
- That means the price of land for suburban tract housing is heading ever upward.
- Tall house, short setback - it's an all-too-common problem in modern tract housing, and the Hogans faced it too.
- Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines.
- The program called for the design of eight houses that would demonstrate modern alternatives to tract housing.
- But unlike everyday tract housing or conventional strip developments, the Marion Cultural Centre remains a critically reflexive exploration of itself and its context.
- After adjusting to the exotic environment, the heat, and the realization that what used to be wilderness is now surrounded by tract housing development, the students get to work.
- Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic.
- In Vlas, a town just north of Sunny Beach, for example, we saw 200-room hotels under construction, lined up like dominos or suburban tract housing.
- Investors routinely purchase undeveloped floodplain land for relatively low prices, throw up tract housing and then re-sell each unit at prices greatly inflated by the current housing bubble.
- Sooner or later, all of this land will be given over to strip malls and tract housing.
- The surge of construction in the 1990's - dismal ranchettes insinuating themselves on the mountains of Wyoming, tract housing invading farm fields in Ohio - has enlisted a new constituency for change.
Definition of tract housing in US English: tract housingnoun North American A type of housing development featuring houses that are all of a similar appearance or design. Example sentencesExamples - Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines.
- After adjusting to the exotic environment, the heat, and the realization that what used to be wilderness is now surrounded by tract housing development, the students get to work.
- This idea of simplicity may have something to do with widespread concerns during the last decade about the lack of architectural involvement in suburban tract housing.
- Endless rows of suburban tract housing are sprouting up where corn once grew.
- In Vlas, a town just north of Sunny Beach, for example, we saw 200-room hotels under construction, lined up like dominos or suburban tract housing.
- Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic.
- But unlike everyday tract housing or conventional strip developments, the Marion Cultural Centre remains a critically reflexive exploration of itself and its context.
- The surge of construction in the 1990's - dismal ranchettes insinuating themselves on the mountains of Wyoming, tract housing invading farm fields in Ohio - has enlisted a new constituency for change.
- Sooner or later, all of this land will be given over to strip malls and tract housing.
- Asphalt radiates solar heat like a stovetop, creating a heat island where farmlands and desert have been paved over to make room for tract housing and some four million vehicles.
- In addition to causing social problems, the spread of tract housing exacerbated a host of environmental ills.
- The program called for the design of eight houses that would demonstrate modern alternatives to tract housing.
- Photographs of rows of nondescript suburban tract housing along with an accompanying essay were presented as a magazine spread in Arts Magazine, December 1966.
- That means the price of land for suburban tract housing is heading ever upward.
- As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up.
- Tall house, short setback - it's an all-too-common problem in modern tract housing, and the Hogans faced it too.
- With that project under its belt, the company was able to exit the tract housing market and break into the expanding school construction arena.
- He then began photographing what had become banal suburbia, complete with tract housing, strip malls and gas stations.
- Investors routinely purchase undeveloped floodplain land for relatively low prices, throw up tract housing and then re-sell each unit at prices greatly inflated by the current housing bubble.
- There are efficiencies that could translate into more architecture for less money, and it could compete with tract housing as a much higher-quality product.
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