tract houses

Spanish translation: viviendas monoformes

21:18 Jul 1, 2003
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: tract houses
For over a century, District Six had been a bustling Cape Town neighborhood. Then in 1966, as part of a policy of apartheid, the racist government of South Africa declared it a whites-only area. Homes and businesses were bulldozed and 60,000 residents were displaced to faraway tract houses on barren flats, far from family and friends.
Blanca Amoroso
Local time: 01:35
Spanish translation:viviendas monoformes
Explanation:
Es decir, viviendas diseñadas según el mismo modelo que se construyen sobre un terreno particular como un conjunto habitacional.

La definición de <tract house>

tract house
one of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land (MWU)

Saludos desde Tenerife en Canarias,

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Valentín Hernández Lima
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Mil gracias a todos por su colaboración.

Saludos,
Blanca.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4viviendas monoformes
Valentín Hernández Lima
5 +1casas hechas en serie
Henry Hinds
4casas en parcelas estériles...
Francisco Herrerias
4casa prefabricada
Deborah Ramirez (X)
3conjuntos habitacionales
marinagil


  

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casas en parcelas estériles...


Explanation:
esta es mi sugerencia, en una traducción directa sería redundante, "casas en parcelas de llanos estériles"... ¡demasiado!

Francisco Herrerias
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viviendas monoformes


Explanation:
Es decir, viviendas diseñadas según el mismo modelo que se construyen sobre un terreno particular como un conjunto habitacional.

La definición de <tract house>

tract house
one of many similarly designed houses built on a tract of land (MWU)

Saludos desde Tenerife en Canarias,

V

Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Local time: 05:35
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Mil gracias a todos por su colaboración.

Saludos,
Blanca.

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agree  Cirera Marti (X)
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agree  silviafont: Yes. Quite so
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agree  Esther Hermida: Yes, indeed
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agree  Сергей Лузан
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casa prefabricada


Explanation:
creo que asi les llaman

Deborah Ramirez (X)
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casas hechas en serie


Explanation:
Ya


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Henry Hinds
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agree  Сергей Лузан: Tal vez, especialmente en Rusia.
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conjuntos habitacionales


Explanation:
COnjuntos de casas populares para la poblacion negra en las "townships".

marinagil
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