Use+of+bricks+in+Urban+Planning

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BRICK UPON BRICK: To Put One **Brick Upon** Another

What Does Brick And Mortar Mean? A traditional "street-side" business that deals with its customers face to face in an office or store that the business owns or rents. Web-based businesses usually have lower costs and greater flexibility than brick-and-mortar operations. The local grocery store and the corner bank are examples of "brick and mortar" companies.

**be/come up against a brick wall** to not be able to continue an activity or do something you want to do //I've tried everywhere I can think of for funding but I've come up against a brick wall. My brother wants to leave home but he can't find a job. He's up against a brick wall.// ﻿ ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿  ﻿    **hit somebody like a ton of bricks** (//American informal//) to surprise or shock someone very much //The truth hit him like a ton of bricks.//   <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 13px Arial; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">

=<span style="color: #a44533; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times; font-size: 2.5em; font-weight: 100; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">drop a brick //or// clanger =

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 * <span style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> say something tactless, inappropriate and often hurtful // Example I dropped a bit of a clanger when I asked how her husband was – he had died the previous week.// ( Note The noise of a clanger is presumably harsh, echoic and painful on the ear – not something that can be easily ignored, muffled or brushed aside without proper response.)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"What construction material would you use to build your own house? Why?  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿     Piazza del Campo   How has brick been used in Piazza del Campo? Piazza del Campo is the main public square in Siena and is known to be one of the most beautiful medieval squares in Europe. There is a huge shell-shaped motif on the paving. This scallop-like pattern comprises a red brick herringbone layout. It is intersected by nine white travertine lines. This unique place has the shape of a big concave shell. The paving is made of red bricks arranged in fishbone style and it is also built in a slope. During the medieval period, the clay for making brick often was created by workers using their bare feet. The clay was molded into a brick by pushing it into a wooden frame placed on a table. Clay bricks were used often in places where marble bricks were scarce or too expensive.