"vinyl village" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: vinyl village

Part of Speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: There are so many barriers to producing good design solutions that the path of least resistance has led us to vinyl villages of franchised architecture surrounded by seas of asphalt.

Author:
Kenneth B. Hall, Gerald A. Porterfield

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Community By Design

Date of Publication:
Mar. 12, 2001

Page Number:
78

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