Urban Planning & Zoning Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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greenprint n. “State plan” means “Greenprint for Minnesota: A State Plan for Environmental Education.” [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2007)

greenspacing n. Flooded neighborhoods like Gentilly and New Orleans East angrily rejected “greenspacing,” the term for essentially removing people and houses permanently. [English Construction & Buildings Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 28, 2006)

land banking n. It also claims that established supermarkets may further frustrate their rivals by buying up land adjacent existing shopping precincts—a practice known as “land banking.” [English Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Mar. 20, 2008)

litter on a stick n. Litter on a stick—freestanding pole sign. [English Urban Planning & Zoning Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 10, 2006)

meshblock n. Your statement above is talking about linking individual “census profiles” to voting records. That certainly doesn’t happen now. In fact until the most recent census the original documents were all destroyed, leaving only the summary data down to the meshblock level. [English Urban Planning & Zoning Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2006)

naked road n. “It’s counterintuitive, but it works,” said urban planner Ben Hamilton-Baillie, who heads the British arm of a four-year European project, Shared Spaces, to test the viability of what some planners call “naked roads.” Since 2004, some roads in the eastern English town of Ipswich, as well as towns in Germany, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands have been stripped of signs and signals—and authorities have been tracking the results. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

naked road n. “Naked road” schemes, where streets have no signs, traffic lights or road markings or kerbs, would be welcomed by two in five of those surveyed. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

naked road n. Exhibition Road in Kensington could be the showcase for the “naked road” experiment—pioneered in Holland. Organisers say the idea works as a form of psychological traffic calming which encourages drivers to be more considerate to pedestrians. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Nov. 22, 2006)

neckdown n. At their best, Greenstreets—the pint-sized green spaces that Parks began planting in 1996—have served as modest traffic-calming measures, displacing asphalt with patches of greenery that send cues to slow down. The new breed goes a few steps further: They combine advanced stormwater capture techniques with more overt traffic-calming devices, like neckdowns and bulb-outs. [English Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2008)

neckout n. Bottleneck roads are prime candidates for road rage. I have no idea who designed roads that lose lanes, but they had better go back to the drawing board. Traffic neckouts, as they’re called, will not improve our road problems; they will only make them worse. [English Automobiles & Transportation Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2007)

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