woonerf

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (living street).

Noun

woonerf (plural woonerfs or woonerven)

  1. (uncommon) A street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.
    • 1992, Stephen Carr, Public Space, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142:
      Other problems cited by Poulton include overall circulation problems, parking problems for service vans, and the difficulty strangers have finding their way around a woonerf.
    • 2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times:
      He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk.

Synonyms

Dutch

Etymology

From wonen (to live) +‎ erf (yard). Originated in several residential neighborhoods of Delft in the 1960s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

woonerf n (plural woonerven, diminutive woonerfje n)

  1. woonerf, living street

References

  1. ^ Pia Christensen, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton, Peter Kraftl (2017) Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments: New Urbanisms, New Citizens, Routledge, →ISBN