urban fabric
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- noun
- Specialized
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tejido urbano
- The urban fabric of the city is made up of its buildings, parks, and streets.
- Italian urban fabric
Examples
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Moreover, the bird's-eye plan and perspective applied to the rendering of these areas allow the viewer to look over the long rows of houses receding into the depth and the multiple layers of architecture constituting the dense urban fabric.
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These future blocks will complete the existing urban fabric of the neighborhood, which is booming.
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In the meantime, Downtown became a unique part of the Egyptian urban fabric.
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As part of our thinking, we bring a contemporary response while integrating the project into the urban fabric of the existing city center.
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The piazza is a basic component of the Italian urban fabric.
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The urban fabric continues to become denser even as landfill extends island size.
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Clearly, many American cities need to repair decades' worth of damage to the walkable urban fabric that makes transit efficient and well-used.
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Midtowns that are well embedded in the urban fabric and well connected by a variety of transit options will be increasingly important in cities of the future.
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The project's intervention will not only rejuvenate the experience of cinema but also energize the urban fabric of Kabukicho.
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Since there isn't enough old abandoned urban fabric to redevelop, the future presents West Coasters with a stark choice: more sprawl or something better.
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How Dense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derivable from 'urban' (relating to a city) + 'fabric' (an underlying framework or structure), so a learner who knows both senses will readily infer 'urban fabric' as the physical and social structure of a city. This metaphorical use of 'fabric' is common cross-linguistically (e.g. French 'tissu urbain', Spanish 'tejido urbano'), supporting immediate comprehension.
Etymology
The phrase urban fabric uses the image of fabric, a cloth made from many threads, to show how urban parts like buildings, streets and people are woven together. That's why it means 'the physical and social structure' of a city.