That impulse lurks in the English urban character, but so does pragmatism.

这种想法的原推动潜藏在英国城市人的特性，不过实用主义也是一样。

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Taking street blocks as basic units to embody the character of a city, is an efficient way of figuring urban character.

以街区为单位来体现一个城市的建筑特色，是实现城市特色的一种有效途径。

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The main aim of our plan was to substantiate the vivid urban character of the project and optimise its functional allocation.

本设计的指导目标，在于使整体设计活泼化、市性格具体化，与功能分配理想化。

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It also needs to recognise that while rural and urban areas have separate qualities and character, they are economically intrinsically linked.

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They said its infrastructure would not be able to cope with such a large increase and it would change its character from a village to "an urban sprawl".

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Lloyd said that when he and writer Moore created the character of V they had a basic idea of an urban guerrilla fighting a fascist dictatorship but wanted to inject more theatricality into the story.

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