The Suburbs: vocabulary (Timothée, Maud, Johann)

Here is a list of vocabulary related to the issue discussed in John C. Keats' description of the suburbs as "the new American nightmare"

Words in English	French translation	Word in context
The edges of American cities	Les marges des villes américaines	''The slums we're building around the edges of American cities''
a neighborhood	un quartier
The folks next door	Les voisins les plus proches
housing developments	ensembles immobiliers	''We offer here for your inspection facts relative to today's housing developments''
to destroy	détruire, démolir	''They destroy etablished cities''
an area	une zone
city managers	les administrateurs municipaux	''These facts are well known to responsible city managers''
a contractor	un entrepreneur
a rural tract	une zone rurale
hurriedly	en hâte	''a shopping center and supermarket are hurriedly built''
material prosperity	prospérité matérielle	''That such prosperity is entirely material''
to socialize with someone	nouer des relations avec qqn, entretenir des relations sociales	''A man in a development has no need to socialize with the other men'' ''his socializing takes place in the city where he works''
services	des services	''They merely supply services to one another''
homogenous	homogène	''In a homogenous community,no one has anything to offer anyone else''
too-much-alike people	des gens trop semblables	''too-much-alike people have nothing to communicate to each other''
facilities	installations, équipements	''facilties for dances, sports''