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Definition of Highrise
1. a building with many stories [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highrise
Literary usage of Highrise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... Delbeke The Transformation of Cyberspace in William Gibson's "Neuromancer'
from highrise Grid to Hive l» Keywords: • Literary Criticism • Architecture ..."
2. Race and Default in Credit Markets: A Colloquy edited by Michael A. Stegman (1996)
"Although once viewed by PHAs as an economical form of land use, highrise apartment
buildings in public housing developments are increasingly viewed as being ..."
3. Creating Defensible Space by Oscar Newman (1996)
"A foui-city-block highrise development. All the streets and grounds are public.
Figure 1-14 is the same four-block area shown in figures 1-12 and 1-13, ..."
4. Defensible Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community by Henry G. Cisneros (1995)
"highrise apartments with large outside open spaces are hardest to make defensible.
... Moreover, a highrise project typically has a large outside "no-man's ..."
5. State and Local Law Enforcement Wireless Communications and Interoperability by Mary J. Taylor, Robert C. Epper, Thomas K. Tolman (2000)
"Respondents were asked about the presence of mountains, rolling hills, and/or
the presence of many highrise buildings. They were also given "relatively ..."
6. Architectural Guide to Moscow by Aleksandr Viktorovich Anisimov (1993)
"One of seven highrise buildings commissioned by the government in Moscow at ...
The building consists of a central highrise twenty-four-storey section and ..."
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