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viilas operárias

English translation: working-class suburbs/districts/townships

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Portuguese term or phrase:viilas operárias
English translation:working-class suburbs/districts/townships
Entered by: Martin Riordan

02:48 Sep 3, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Architecture / planejamento urbano
Portuguese term or phrase: viilas operárias
a versão se trata de urbanização de favelas e fala dos primeiros moradores que se instalavam em vilas operárias.
Maria Cristina Vasconcelos
Brazil
Local time: 09:08
working-class suburbs/districts/townships
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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 09:08
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6working-class suburbs/districts/townships
Martin Riordan
4 +2working-class housing
Muriel Vasconcellos
5worker's villages
airmailrpl


  

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working-class suburbs/districts/townships


Explanation:
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    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/working-class
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 09:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
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agree  David Hollywood: sounds good to me Martin :)
26 mins
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agree  Claudio Mazotti: nice suggestion!
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agree  Nina_PT: ´working-class suburbs" is the most commonly used by field experts. The other two options are more rarely used than 'working-class housing' suggested by MV.
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agree  Daniel Tavares
11 hrs
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agree  Teresa Bettencourt
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agree  Margarida Ataide
3 days 5 hrs
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working-class housing


Explanation:
As I understand it, the idea here is that the vilas were neighborhoods built for the purpose.

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Working-Class Housing Complex Will Rise as Part of the Greenery ...
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Jan 17, 2007 – Hoping to inspire more imaginative design in working-class housing, the city will turn over a 60000-square-foot lot in the South Bronx.

Victorian Working-class Housing
www.londonancestor.com/local/working-class-houses.htm - a sadly-neglected portion of the wealthy parish of St. James, long known as one of the 'rookeries' of the metropolis; namely, a piece of ground in the rear of the ...

Frank Lloyd Wright, Usonian Houses and the FBI » Counterpunch ...
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Get CounterPunch by email for only $35 per year. August 13, 2002. Usonian Utopias Frank Lloyd Wright, Working Class Housing and the FBI ...

Market Solutions for Social Problems: Working-Class Housing in ...
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by S Morris - 2001 - Cited by 6 - Related articles
problem of providing decent working-class housing in inner-city areas ... insignificant amount of working-class housing, and that they were unable to provide ...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 05:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 60

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agree  Claudio Mazotti: nice suggestion as well!
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agree  Margarida Ataide
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worker's villages


Explanation:
viilas operárias => worker's villages

A construção se vilas operárias no sul do Brasil: o caso de Galópolis
www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-146(080).htm
The purpose of building worker's villages is to immobilize labor force for the factory process, thus guaranteeing its reproduction through its being available. ...

Grafton Station Ghost Town
www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/towns/graftons.html
– As was the common practise in the early 20th century many industries would establish 'worker's villages' offering housing, stores, schools, ...

Essay 3: The Thai-Burma Border
www.kirranshah.com/galleries/essay-3-thai-burma-border.html -
These photographs were taken in and around migrant worker's villages on the Thai-Burma border. From Burma's ethnic minority hill tribes, these people have ...

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 09:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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