blockbusting
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈblɑkˌbʌstɪŋ/
- Jargon
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práctica de blockbusting
- Conceptual blockbusting techniques adopt several approaches.
Examples
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Finally, some skeptics may feel that they can produce creative ideas without using conceptual blockbusting techniques.
Academic text (2001) -
It is the reason that his book, Conceptual Blockbusting, looks more like a smorgasbord of techniques than a coherent program like Six Sigma.
Academic text (2007) -
"Blockbusting" and "redlining" destroyed the economic base of my neighborhood, among many others.
Fiction book (1996) -
Neither were neighborhoods victimized by blockbusting.
Academic text (2001) -
Blockbusting, whether overt or subtle, didn't work in Toronto as it did in Chicago and other American cities where real estate people connived at manipulations to drive out whites where they wanted to establish ghettos.
Academic text (2001) -
Mencken espied and described the process whereby real estate agents purposefully precipitated racial turnover in residential neighborhoods, the process called "blockbusting" years later (Mencken 1928b).
Academic text (2006) -
Real estate agents often engage in blockbusting by creating panic among homeowners about incoming minority populations.
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The community rallied against blockbusting, which they believed would lead to a decline in their property values.
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In a presentation, the speaker explained how blockbusting had harmed local neighborhoods by pressuring residents to sell their homes quickly.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blockbusting combines block (a part of a neighbourhood) and 'busting' ('breaking up' the area). It refers to a practice where agents used fear to make people sell quickly, so blockbusting as a noun means the act that destabilises a community for profit.