Heh heh. Sounds like someone not used to writing about cities, grabbing
at a fistful of half-noticed clichés to tackle a new assignment. Cities
are "sprawling"; nice cities have a "wealth of treasures"; mention
something Victorian that sounds nice, what's that F-word they use?...
In correct English, "sprawling," in real-estate contexts, describes land
use that chews up a lot of land, often with low-density structures or
production systems. Los Angeles is sprawling, San Francisco is not.
Penn's campus could be described as sprawling, by comparison with
Drexel's. The King Ranch in Texas could be described as sprawling, by
comparison with an Amish farm in Lancaster Co. It's a metaphor that
connotes expanding and spreading out all over.
If Spruce Hill began to stick out feelers into neighboring communities,
annexing tidbits of Cedar Park and Walnut Hill and West Powelton ...
then it might qualify as sprawling.
-- Tony
I was wondering what it means for a neighborhood to be "sprawling?"
Jim
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Frank Carroll <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
"high Victorian flare." Could they use a proofreader or is this
some decorative phrase of which I'm unaware?
Frank
