NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard

BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

As in - Are you a NIMBY or a BANANA?

And your contributions: -

NOTE – Not Over There Either - Great for AONB areas. Thanks to Rich Smith for this.

CAVE - Citizens Against Virtually Everything. Thanks to Tim Brennan for this one.

'Mocky Horrors' Mock Houses such as:

Neo Geo - A most elegant building period confused by developers with 'Gone with the Wind'
Vicwardian - Phoney sash windows and plastic doors
Tudorbethan - Bring on those applied planks
Vernacular's - Gloucester, Chiltern, Hampshire - cod historic's

Gob-Ons - Developer term for the twiddly bits applied to Mocky Horrors which are meant to replicate architectural detail

Architectural Pox - A collective of Mocky Horrors

Cod Historic - Almost goes without saying really

Architectural Acne - Satellite dishes

Wall Warts - anything that is affixed to walls including PIRs and thermostats, sockets and switches. Many thanks to Dr David Strong, MD of BRE's Energy Division for this gem.

Mrs Tiggywinkle Interiors - I don't need to explain do I - you know don't you. My thanks to Rick Woollen - ex wideboy city chap, Richard Neutra enthusiast, bonviveur until his heart went boom, and now a whittler and very good at it too. Rick sent me an email after the Sunday Times article way back in 2001 and we have been communicating ever since and have met once. Don't whinge any more Woollen - uou're on "Tom Perry's cult website" (Tom Dyckhoff - Architectural Editor - The Times)

My great thanks to Richard Robinson, PR/Marketing Manager at the very posh, very establishment and very reputable architectural firm of of MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard no less for the following. Yes I know they sould like a legal practice for the mob but take a look at their website http://www.mjparchitects.co.uk - it is very interesting. As they can afford a PR and Marketing man they are clearly "doing well". Richards contribution takes us to the USA, much of which can be applied to the UK sadly.
"Urban sprawl and its accelerated growth has brought many changes to the American way of life. Now it is to get its own lexicon: 'a vocabulary that's accessible to every American citizen - a vocabulary of placelessness.' Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and a leading protagonist in the war against suburbia, has produced a 'Field Guide to Sprawl'."

a boomburb, she explains, is a fast-growing suburb

a zoomburb is one that's growing even faster.

Snout Houses have garages bluntly pointing out at the street; the collective noun is 'snoutscape'. This description also fits here in the UK all too often because of the utterly non-thinking UK speculative house developers.

a Ball Pork is a sports stadium 'built with public money for the benefit of a privately owned athletic team'

Litter-on-a-stick - advertising hoardings - marvellous and so relevant to UK cities

Ground cover - cheap buildings (e.g self-storage facilities) built to occupy land temporarily until it can be developed more profitably for housing.

Putting 'parsley around the pig' - minimal landscaping to decorate mundane large developments. I can think of several developers this applies to.