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conglomeration of apartment towers (growing up in a conglomeration of apartment towers in China ART Vancouver) |
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tower cluster (There is a lot packed into the new tower cluster at the south foot of Cambie, which its commercial operators call “Marine Gateway on the Canada Line.” It’s at the often-jammed intersection at Marine and Cambie, where 20 lanes of cars and trucks converge. • Politicians, he said, are being prodded to “implement the Hong-Kong model of city building, where developing huge tower clusters at transit stations provide much or all of the funding to build its subways.” Condon would not object to Hong Kong-style development if it created affordable housing. But housing in congested, geographically squeezed Hong Kong is arguably the most expensive in the world.  vancouversun.com, vancouversun.com ART Vancouver) |
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highrise hub (расположенный на транспортном узле, окружённый торговым центром, детсадом и сопутствующими видами услуг для жильцов: The cluster of tall residential highrises and offices is an example of the way Metro Vancouver is at the leading edge of a trend of squeezing large populations into tight urban zones next to rapid-transit stations, often in neighbourhoods where detached homes predominate. (...) The highrise hub is like many others peppered across Metro Vancouver. A University of B.C. urban landscape specialist, Patrick Condon, says local politicians have embraced, like almost no others in North America, the planning model based on organizing high-density projects around rapid-transit stations. vancouversun.com ART Vancouver); highrise cluster (massive highrise clusters that are often financed by offshore sources ART Vancouver); high-rise housing estate (In the movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” the main characters move between opulent mansions and colonial-era hotels in Singapore. But the reality is the vast majority of families live in modestly-sized apartments built by the government—concentrated, high-rise housing estates that elsewhere in the world might, to some, conjure images of low-income urban blight. bloomberg.com ART Vancouver) |
