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quarter-acre blocknoun Australian / NZA standard plot of land for a suburban house: people wanted a house of good size on a quarter-acre block...- The architectural theorist described suburban culture—with its dream of an endless distribution of tidy family homes on their quarter-acre blocks—as "arborophobic".
- If I buy a quarter-acre block in Streaky Bay, there's lots of things I can't do on that.
- 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.
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