woonerf

Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (“living street”).

woonerf (plural woonerfs or woonerven)

1. (uncommon) A street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.
   • 1992, Stephen Carr, Public Space, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142:

     Other problems cited by Poulton include overall circulation problems, parking problems for service vans, and the difficulty strangers have finding their way around a woonerf.

   • 2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk.

• (type of street): living street, (UK, Ireland) home zone, (US) complete street, (Australia, NZ) shared zone

From wonen (“to live”) +‎ erf (“yard”). Originated in several residential neighborhoods of Delft in the 1960s.^[1]

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woonerf n (plural woonerven, diminutive woonerfje n)

1. woonerf, living street