"frontier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Both were pioneers: Breece in the wilderness, Jane Jacobs in an urban frontier that she could see in a way that others had not.
- The enterprise zone concept sees inner cities, in effect, as 'urban frontiers' constrained by regulations and a tax code that is irrelevant to the problems and opportunities that exist.
- The waterfront itself has always been a wild place, an urban frontier where the laws of society are suspended.
- Then, in 1832, with the northern stretches of the urban frontier nearing 14th Street, Houston Street became the southern boundary of the new 15th Ward.
- And so is the week's refrain - this is a safe haven, these are the best schools, the best people, the best neighborhoods scratched from farmland at the far urban frontier.
- The Irish on the urban frontier: Nineteenth century Detroit, 1850-1880 (1976)
- But the couple called the space home for 27 years, rearing two daughters as they watched SoHo's gradual evolution from urban frontier to upscale address.
- It's kind of like being a cow girl in the city, on the urban frontier.
- But everyone agreed it was a true urban frontier, a gritty world of garbage trucks, dying factories, snaggle-toothed hookers and scorched carcasses of stolen cars.
- Beyond dispute is that another urban frontier, resistant to change even in the robust market of the 1980's, is at last being breached.
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