(n.) A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(2) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
(3) While political turmoil could make London's townhouses an even more attractive safe haven for wealthy Russians and Ukrainians, a spokesperson said: "We've seen no real change and nor do we expect any."
(4) Many homes costing more than £2m are "fairly ordinary townhouses", he wrote.
(5) Property experts say homes similar to the 115-year-old stucco-fronted townhouse fetch rents of around £25,000 a week and could sell for as much as £12m.
(6) says billionaire Alexander Lebedev, sitting on a brown leather sofa in his comfortable three-storey Moscow townhouse.
(7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
(8) Rental crisis: it's now impossible for most poor families to find a home Read more Graham Marshall, 48, was living in a three-bedroom townhouse in Sydney paying $540 a week in 2013 (he says the same place now costs about $700 a week) when he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
(9) Premier Inn has 72 hotels in Greater London, Travelodge has 67, Holiday Inn 38 and Ibis 24; and all brands continue to expand: a fifth Hub by Premier Inn is set to open on Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, for example; Ibis Styles is opening in west London; while Z hotels is adding Covent Garden and Soho to its collection of listed townhouses in 2018.
(10) Jim McCormick's property in Bath McCormick is married with two children, and his family have the run of a farmhouse deep in the Somerset countryside, a £3.5m townhouse in Bath with a basement swimming pool that was previously owned by the Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage, and a holiday home in Cyprus.
(11) A few doors down on the opposite side you can check in at Maison Fredon , an 18th-century townhouse newly restored in rough-luxe style, its five bedrooms (from €120 a night) decked out with random pieces by the likes of Philippe Starck (him again), Benjamin Spark, Antonio Segui, Mies Van der Rohe as well as eccentric flea market finds.
(12) On Wednesday, the nation learned the downsizing would also include diplomatic residences abroad – starting with the Victorian townhouse that was once the Greek consul general's residence in London.
(13) On the north side of Union Square there is a terrace of tall, early-Victorian townhouses.
(14) Portugal stays CITIES 1 Gorgeous townhouse, Lisbon Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa Das Merceeiras is two apartments in an 18th-century Alfama townhouse, beautifully restored by owner Teresa Albarran.
(15) In Olhão, White Terraces (+289 119 616, whiteterraces.com) has five sensational townhouses from €40-€130 per day, or €225-€850 per week, depending on the size of property and season.
(16) Jane Jacobs was right that Greenwich Village was a magical space – but now those townhouses in the Village start at $8m Edward Glaeser Facebook Twitter Pinterest Author Jane Jacobs and architect Philip Johnson stand outside New York’s Penn Station in 1963 to protest the building’s demolition.
(17) He owns an estate, several townhouses and a lucrative steel, sugar, textile and paper empire.
(18) It’s because throwing your family’s dinner in the bin, or swapping your five-bedroom townhouse for a council flat, is entirely fruitless.
(19) EMI bought Townhouse Studios in 1993, eventually selling the site to the Sanctuary Group in 2002, which in turn sold it on to Universal in June 2007.
(20) Gay Talese backtracks on book comments: everything I said is the truth Read more The profile is hefty, at 15,000 words, so the interview, conducted in Talese’s stately Upper East Side townhouse, was split up over two days.
Urban
Definition:
(a.) Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
(a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(4) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(5) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(6) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(7) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(8) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(9) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(10) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
(11) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.
(12) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(13) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(14) 58% of the urban population has access to drinking water.
(15) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
(16) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
(17) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(18) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(19) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(20) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.