Sentence examples for housing blocs from inspiring English sources
The daily newspaper Tagesspiegel recently called her "a phenomenon," under the headline "Princess of the Plattenbau," the prefabricated housing blocs built in the former East.
ZARQA, Jordan — This crammed slum of four-story concrete housing blocs has given Jordan some of its biggest headaches: it is a stronghold of the opposition Islamic Action Front and the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who rose from here to the helm of the Iraqi insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
In terms of political implications, it means that, for example, political authorities ought to consider the existent character of the local community when considering plans for development (Jane Jacobs famously documented the negative effects of razing, instead of renovating, run-down tenements that are replaced by functionally adequate but characterless low-income housing blocs (Jacobs 1965).
The set for her first comedy special, "Schizophrenic: I Wanted to Be a Princess," was a Communist housing bloc.
IN 1975 THE FAMILY moved to an apartment in a housing bloc of 14-story buildings on Kibalchicha Street on the north side of Moscow.
He comes by his persistence and his rectitude honestly, Melissa wrote: He built a congregation by knocking on doors in a pre-fabricated Communist housing bloc in the 1970s.
At one housing bloc, 70 inhabitants were sharing 24 beds and two latrines.
Chytilová used a handheld camera for Prefab Story (aka Panel Story, 1979), a social satire delving into the chaotic lives of the inhabitants of a characteristically dull and grey unfinished communist-bloc housing estate.
This one, while it has some nice futuristic design touches (including grubby East Bloc housing projects and a splendidly renovated Harlem brownstone), combines badly executed action sequences with mystic mumbo-jumbo that I suspect not even a two-disc director's cut DVD could make comprehensible.
Mr. Voigt has already supervised the demolition of 60 houses and 12 apartment blocs, strategically injecting grassy patches into once-dense complexes.
The Israelis want US permission to continue settlement growth even beyond what they term "settlement blocs" that house the majority of settlers in the West Bank.
