For example, in Washington Heights and Golan Heights, what does “heights” mean? What does it tell us about the place?

  • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    That’s generally how it’s used in Australia. There will be an existing suburb named ‘generic suburb’, and developers will come and build a new housing development full of cookie cutter houses on 300m2 blocks with their gutters near touching eachother and call it ‘generic suburb heights’ as an attempt to give the schmucks that buy there some sort of feeling of prestige over the older neighbourhood with larger block sizes and more human compatible dwellings.

    Other guy in here nailed it with the British origins but for some reason he’s been downvoted.