ribbon development in English

noun
1
the building of houses along a main road, especially one leading out of a town or city.
On either side were buildings made of brick with carved stonework and classical mouldings, suggesting that the town consisted of about a mile of ribbon development along the line of the road.

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1. It can be the dreary horror of ribbon development.

2. At the same time in the manufacture of rope ribbon development, manufacturing strengths.

3. Ribbon development, urban sprawl and scattered housing were all brought under reasonable control.

4. Subsequent ribbon development has been so spectacular that they were booming even before the election announcement.

5. These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.

6. Two-thirds of the way down is Buchi Emecheta's house, built in the anonymous style of 1930s ribbon development.