disamenity
- noun
- /ˌdɪsəˈmɛnɪti/
- The abandoned factory was considered a major disamenity that drove potential buyers away from the neighborhood.
Examples
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Living near the landfill was a constant disamenity for families, affecting their quality of life.
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The city council addressed the disamenity of the nearby sewage treatment plant in their urban development plan.
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All are, or at least were originally, isolated from other sections of the city, typically near disamenity areas.
Academic text (1991) -
Human agency, in this regard, must be regarded in relation to larger structural forces that generate uneven distribution of environmental amenities and disamenities.
Academic text (2008) -
In contrast with these district zones, compound zones emerged during the 1950s in locations either outside the built-up area or in specific, often inconspicuous disamenity sites in the city proper.
Academic text (1991) -
They are scattered throughout the metropolitan area and are associated with disamenity sites such as marshland and flood zones or with areas in transition to other uses (Fig. 12).
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Though an accessible location, La Chinesca was plagued by disamenity features, including most prominently the river and the railroad-industrial corridor that cut diagonally across the urban fabric.
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Compounds, in contrast, are wall-enclosed or spatially segregated zones with multiple streets lined with bars and clubs and often situated on the urban periphery near a disamenity land use.
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For example, the canals of Jakarta quickly became sluggish, malaria-infested disamenities rather than Dutch-style open spaces, and the city became infamous for its rich variety of diseases.
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Mexican residents were steered south of Washington Street, an industrial and warehouse district and classic disamenity zone, especially after a series of Salt River floods that inundated this low-lying section of Phoenix in the 1890s (Gober 2006, 23).
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
A feeling in a place that is old and not well kept
Antonyms
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disamenity is built from dis- meaning 'not' and amenity, which means a 'pleasant' feature like a park or good service. So a disamenity is a 'not pleasant' feature that makes a place less attractive.