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  2. Garden city movement - Wikipedia

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    The Gidea Park estate in particular was built during two main periods of activity, 1911 and 1934. Both resulted in some good examples of domestic architecture, by such architects as Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin. Thanks to such strongly conservative local residents' associations as the Civic Society, both Hampstead and Gidea Park retain ...

  3. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.

  4. City block - Wikipedia

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    Blocks of 80, 40, and 10 acres establish a street grid at the outskirts which continues into the more finely divided downtown area. A city block , residential block , urban block , or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design .

  5. Why turning cities into ‘sponges’ could help fight flooding

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    The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China's Jiangxi province, saw Turenscape transform a polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site into a 126-acre "floating forest."

  6. Broadacre City - Wikipedia

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    There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City, but the apartment dwellers are expected to be a small minority. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only [citation needed] within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.

  7. David and Gladys Wright House - Wikipedia

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    The site covers either 5.6 acres (2.3 ha) [6] or 5.9 acres (2.4 ha). [7] There is a detached single-story guesthouse to the northeast. [8] [9] The surrounding area includes detached ranch homes, some of which have been replaced with newer mansions. [10] These include a house to the south, designed by Wright's eldest son Lloyd Wright. [11]

  8. Tiny-house movement - Wikipedia

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    The average size of newly constructed homes in the United States grew from 1,780 sq ft (165 m 2) in 1978 to 2,479 sq ft (230.3 m 2) in 2007, and further still to 2,662 sq ft (247.3 m 2) in 2013. [22] [23] Henry David Thoreau and the publication of his book Walden are often quoted as an early inspiration for the tiny-house movement.

  9. Architecture of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    The design of the roof significantly evokes the traditional architecture of Zimbabwe. [2] Adjacent to the casino, guest rooms are arranged in twelve complexes on a curvilinear plan. Alongside these buildings, there is an artificial lake on which the structures seem to float, suggesting a moat at times. [ 2 ]