crudscapeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

crudscape (plural crudscapes)

1. (urban studies, derogatory) The landscape associated with suburban sprawl.
   • 1994, The Classicist:

     The truth was they had no intention of changing their idiotic zoning laws, or any of the other mechanisms encoded in their building practices that made it impossible to create places worth caring about, and hence they had no chance of solving the spiritual problems engendered by the creeping crudscape.

   • 1998 March 26, James Howard Kunstler, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 292:

     The scene, with its picturesque backdrop, was serene, lovely, and specific, the antithesis of the grinding anonymous highway crudscape where so much of our national life takes place today.

   • 2002, Steve Belmont, Cities in Full: Recognizing and Realizing the Great Potential of Urban America, American Planning Association:

     Cars still in use promote the visual pollution – the car-oriented crudscapes – ubiquitous in metropolitan America.

   • 2013 May 27, Norman Spinrad, Russian Spring, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     For there was no roadside ticky-tacky at all, no Burger Kings, no Golden Arches, no car lots, no shopping malls and parking lots, no sprawling cheap housing developments, none of the endless suburban crudscape that marked the ride from the airport to any major American city.