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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | Copyright

SLOAP (Space Left Over After Planning). Useless bits of ground left between streets and rigidly rectilinear buildings of International Modernism (which rarely followed traditional street-or urban-patterns).

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	Shifts Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal Rodger, Johnny September 6, 2007 700+ words ...explores the potential for reuse of what is now pejoratively called SLOAP (Space Left Over After Planning) - the sort of nondescript...for today's architectural buzzword is always tomorrow's SLOAP. There will be a seminar at the Lighthouse on Tuesday 2 October...
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