urbanisme gruyère (text in Catalan)
English translation: spotty development/swiss cheese (leopard's skin)city planning?
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|  Selected response from: Guy Bray United States Local time: 04:42 | ||||
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| 4 +1 | Le Corbusier |
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| 4 | Jon, this is a writer's (ironic) coinage which has no lexical |
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| 4 | spotty development/swiss cheese (leopard's skin)city planning? |
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Jon, this is a writer's (ironic) coinage which has no lexical Explanation: definition wherever I've looked; you're perhaps in the best position to know what it refers to (Swiss-cheese town-planning, "light" architecture, etc.), since your text appears to be of a critical nature. I think you'd best invent an equivalent. |
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56 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Le Corbusier Explanation: If this is a joke, it is a double joke. For the Swiss cheese 'Gruyère" is compact, has no holes. If you want an equivalent to "light" architecture without mentioning the "Emmenthal" (the Swiss cheese with holes) you can say "Le Corbusier-like". He is the Swiss architect who brought light into naked concret structures. Reference: http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Le_Corbusier.html |
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spotty development/swiss cheese (leopard's skin)city planning? Explanation: In spite of what the preceding answerer said, it does seem to be used in the sense of am inhomogeneous development (one with holes):see below (even by the French). Reference: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/editorial/xp/edi_p1062136.h... users.skynet.be/gbasile/terr.html - |
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