overdevelopment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + development.
Noun
[edit]overdevelopment (uncountable)
- Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped
- 1988 October 7, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- […] the threat of lopsided, uncontrolled overdevelopment seems distant to many--local residents and Chicagoans alike--who regard the rediscovery of the area as a welcome return to its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, when even more Chicago families spent their summers here.