"as having ""very few buildings"", though it was heavily built up by the late 18th century. It is also mentioned in ""Sketches by Boz"" and ""Bleak House"". The street is a square on the British ""Monopoly"" game board, part of the green set (together with Regent Street and Bond Street). The streets were grouped together as they are all primarily retail areas. In 1991, music manager and entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren produced ""The Ghosts of Oxford Street"", a musical documentary about life and history in the local area. Citations Sources Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City"
"The Green Building The Green Building is an environmentally conscious mixed-use development situated in Manchester. The Green Building was designed by Farrells, who aimed to create a sustainable environment on an unusual triangular plot, adjacent to Oxford Road station. The building was constructed by Taylor Woodrow as part of the Macintosh Village development, which was formerly a Dunlop tyre factory and also the birthplace of the Mackintosh raincoat. A total of 32 apartments are arranged across the uppermost eight stories of the ten-floor development. The lower two levels contain a children's day nursery, operated by Kids Unlimited, and a commercial"
"Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester Airport, The Trafford Centre and many other locations across the south of Greater Manchester. The Green Building The Green Building is an environmentally conscious mixed-use development situated in Manchester. The Green Building was designed by Farrells, who aimed to create a sustainable environment on an unusual triangular plot, adjacent to Oxford Road station. The building was constructed by Taylor Woodrow as part of the Macintosh Village development, which was formerly a Dunlop tyre factory and also the birthplace of the Mackintosh raincoat. A total of 32 apartments are arranged across the uppermost eight stories of the ten-floor"
"Income Tax (or 10% of their total, as this edition was launched prior to 2008), each player starts with $15,000,000 instead of $1,500, etc.). Also, the Chance and Community Chest cards are updated, the Railroads are replaced by Airports (Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles International, New York City's JFK, and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson), and the Utilities (Electric Company and Water Works) are replaced by Service Providers (Internet Service Provider and Cell Phone Service Provider). The houses and hotels are blue and silver, not green and red as in most editions of ""Monopoly"". The board uses the traditional U.S. layout; the cheapest properties"
"so service vehicles can access connecting buildings safely. The street features as a property with a purchase price of £200 on the British Monopoly board. It is one of a group of three, coded orange, with connections to law, and is named after the police station. The other two orange properties, Bow Street and Marlborough Street, which are both valued at £180, are named after the Bow Street Runners and Marlborough Street Magistrates Court respectively. Since the Man in the Moon is now closed, students on a Monopoly board pub crawl drink in one of the nearby pubs, such as"
"health centre and a number of primary and secondary schools. Officials have also suggested the development of a ""green spine"" of parks and green spaces along the mostly disused Surrey Canal. Old Kent Road is the first property square on the British Monopoly board, priced at £60 and forming the brown set along with the similarly working-class Whitechapel Road. It is the only square on the board in South London and south of the Thames. The road makes several appearances in literature. In Charles Dickens' ""David Copperfield"", the titular character runs down the road trying to escape from London to"
"of novels including P. G. Wodehouse's ""The Mating Season"" (1949) and Evelyn Waugh's ""A Handful of Dust,"" (1934). It is a partial setting for Jane Austen's ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1811) and Michael Arlen's ""The Green Hat"" (1924). Oscar Wilde lived in Grosvenor Square between 1883 and 1884 and referred to it in his works. He regularly socialised in the artistic quarter along Half Moon Street, which is mentioned in both ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" and ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Mayfair is the most expensive property on the standard British ""Monopoly"" board at £400, and is part of the"
"central London. In 2011, Johnson introduced spot fines for coaches idling on Park Lane. The widening of the road distanced the houses on the east side of Park Lane from Hyde Park itself, access to which is now by underpass. Despite the traffic noise the road is still upmarket, featuring five-star hotels (such as The Dorchester, the Grosvenor House Hotel and the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel) and showrooms for several sports car models, including BMW, Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz. Park Lane is the second most valuable property in the London edition of the board game ""Monopoly"". The street had"
"[*] Until 2007, Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues were dark purple properties on the traditional Monopoly board; since 2008, they have been brown. [**] McDonald's added Golden Avenue and Arches Avenue for 2008 only; obtaining both won $100,000. [***] Electric Company & Water Works were added for 2014; obtaining both won $10,000. [****] One Free Parking $100,000 prize was seeded on each of the following in only the US Territory: Bacon Clubhouse (1 in 9,836,000), Filet-O-Fish (1 in 19,585,000), Big Mac (1 in 45,000,000) and Large Fries (1 in 150,254,000) [*****] In 2016, the Canadian version replaced all properties with Canadian"
"Queen Elizabeth II. It was built using more than ten million bricks and has a floor area of . Although it was given a critical reception by architectural critics, visitors have enjoyed the welcoming entrance and praised its internal arrangements. Around 16,000 people visit each day. In Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", the characters Sibyl and James Vane live at a ""shabby lodgings"" on Euston Road. The street is a property in the United Kingdom edition of the board game Monopoly, which features famous London areas on its gameboard. It is a part of the pale blue set,"
"and attempted to make one full circuit of the ""Monopoly"" board within five turns. Two dice were rolled on a shaker table referred to as the """"Monopoly"" Rock-and-Roller,"" and the contestant stopped it by pushing a button and moved clockwise according to the total shown. Rolling doubles awarded an extra roll. All colored properties awarded cash amounts, starting at $2,000 for Baltic Avenue (landing on Mediterranean Avenue was not possible, due to its being only one space away from GO) and increasing clockwise to $40,000 for Boardwalk. Other spaces awarded prizes or triggered mini-games as described below. Rolling three consecutive"
"in Sunday newspapers. Originally, customers received a set of two tokens with every purchase, but now tokens come only with certain menu items. Tokens correspond to a property space on the Monopoly board (with the exception of the ""Golden Avenue/Arches Avenue"" ""properties"", which were added in the 2008 edition; and ""Electric Company/Water Works"" utilities added in 2014). When combined into color-matched properties, the tokens may be redeemed for money. Historically, the grand prize ($1 million, annuity only) has been the combination of the two most costly properties, Park Place and Boardwalk, but in the 2006–2007 games the top prize ($5"
"a prestigious social status when the British version of the ""Monopoly"" board was first produced, in 1936. On the board, Park Lane forms a pair with Mayfair, the most expensive property in the game. The squares were designed to be equivalents of Park Place and Boardwalk, respectively, on the original board, which used streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1988, the World Monopoly Championships were held at the Park Lane Hotel, sponsored by Waddingtons, manufacturers of the British version. Since the game's original production, prices on the real Park Lane have held their value, though average rent costs have"
"expensive properties on the Irish Monopoly board. Among the residents of the street are telecommunications billionaire Denis O'Brien, property developer Derek Quinlan, and businessman Seán Dunne, who once owned 'Walford.' Built in 1902 during the Edwardian era, the red brick house was styled with the Edwardian architectural fashion in mind, in keeping with the characteristics of the district. Although the house is only , the property was seen by many investors as having massive developmental potential due to the total area of . This potential was noticed in 2005 when the death of the former owner, Patrick A. Duggan, forced"
"Green during 2002, used modified and written-upon objects found on the street. In 2003, Inventory were nominated for the Beck's Futures prize. Inventory (artists) Inventory are a collective of British artists, writers and art theorists, founded in 1996. Some of their pieces see them engage in performance art in public spaces. ""Coagulum (Oxford Street)"" in 2000, saw them form into a close group on London's Oxford Street, thus disrupting the flow of pedestrians, before entering a shopping centre and dancing to the piped music. For another piece, they played football on The Mall with a rubber skull, using Buckingham Palace"
"game of properties is re-imagined in a whole new way where a sharp eye and a good sense of recall are rewarded with cash and prizes. One family plays on a MONOPOLY-style virtual game board with two dark blue property spaces — Boardwalk and Park Place — and starts with $1,000 of MONOPOLY money. In the first round, Boardwalk and Park Place are shuffled amongst two penalty spaces — Luxury Tax and Income Tax. Family members use keen vision and extreme concentration to follow the properties as they are rapidly shuffled around the playing field. If the family accurately identifies"
"released in 2001 also by Parker Brothers/Hasbro Hong Kong Ltd. The most recent version, released in 2007, is a limited edition commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Handover. Each copy of the 10th anniversary edition game has a unique number and includes a certificate of authenticity. Properties are well-known locations all over the territory of Hong Kong. The four railways are MTR stations, while in the latest versions, those being the initial four stations of the Airport Express. The 1997 Commemorative Edition brought further changes from the Monopoly standard. Player pieces include Hong Kong symbols. A more widespread version of"
"properties. Other spaces have a particular action that must be taken when landing on or passing over. Key differences from ""Monopoly"" include: no ""color groups"" for properties (instead, a player must own one ""street"" on each of the four sides of the board before properties can be improved); no Title Deed cards with printed rents and mortgage values (instead, the information is printed on the gameboard); and no dedicated ""Jail"" space. Instead of a shared pool of houses and hotels, each player has 16 color-coded houses that are used to denote ownership of a property as well as the current"
"19th century. The street's association with law has led to it being grouped with Bow Street and Marlborough Street on the standard British Monopoly board. The street is approximately long and is a dead end, running east and parallel to Piccadilly near Piccadilly Circus. It consists mainly of the rear facades of buildings facing onto other streets. It connects to Swallow Street at its western end and an alleyway, Piccadilly Place halfway along. At the eastern end, the Man in the Moon Passage provides foot access to Regent Street. The nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus. The street is named"
"the property with cards—the """" aspect of the game. If an opponent lands on a property that one owns, the opponent either pays a toll, or can choose to attack the defending creature with one of their own in order to attempt to take over the property. Unlike Monopoly, this can result in one losing a piece of land after considerable investment. There are four property colors that represent different terrain types, e.g. green = forest. The more a player invests in the property to ""level it up"" (ala adding houses or a hotel in ""Monopoly""), the more the terrain"
"2008, the Speed Die was added to all regular Monopoly set. After polling their Facebook followers, Hasbro Gaming took the top house rules and added them to a House Rule Edition released in the Fall of 2014 and added them as optional rules in 2015. In January 2017, Hasbro invited Internet users to vote on a new set of game pieces, with this new regular edition to be issued in March 2017. The ""Monopoly"" game-board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties—twenty-two streets (grouped into eight color groups), four railroads, and two utilities—three Chance spaces, three Community Chest spaces, a"
"Monopoly. The various game tiles represented properties and companies owned by Khashoggi and his Triad corporation. The game was manufactured and given to family and friends. Triad International was formed in the early 1960s and as it grew spanned five continents. The company holdings included hotels, shopping centers, banks, oil refineries, a computer manufacturer, a gold mine, construction companies, car and truck franchises, and a professional sports team, the Utah Jazz. The company was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with its subsidiary companies located in the United States, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi, through Triad, owned the Mount Kenya Safari Club,"
"locations including Oxford, Exeter, Nottingham, Newcastle, Harlow, and Swansea. In 2002 the Crown Estate began implementing a £1 billion investment programme to improve Regent Street's commercial, retail, and visitor facilities and public realm. In addition, they are investing £500 million in St James's, including a number of major redevelopments. Holdings consist of around 116,000 hectares (287,000 acres) of agricultural land and forests, together with minerals and residential and commercial property. The Windsor Estate covers approximately 6,300 hectares and includes Windsor Great Park, the Home Park of Windsor Castle, extensive forests, residential and commercial properties, golf courses, a racecourse and let"
"Ultimate Banking unit. It can scan the game's property cards and boost or crash the market. Event cards and Location spaces replace Chance and Community Chest cards. On an Event Space, rents may be raised or lowered, a player may earn or lose money, or someone could be sent to Jail. Location Spaces allow players to pay and move to any property space on the gameboard. All property deeds, houses, and hotels are held by the bank until bought by the players. A standard set of ""Monopoly"" pieces includes: A deck of thirty-two Chance and Community Chest cards (sixteen each)"
"and the original buildings were small and old fashioned, restricting trade. The colonnade constructed by Nash was demolished in the mid-19th century for fear it might attract ""doubtful characters."" Other buildings were not up to modern building standards; some had been extended and were structurally suspect. As the 99-year leases came to an end, Regent Street was redeveloped between 1895 and 1927 under the control of the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues (now known as the Crown Estate). The modern Regent Street is the result of this redevelopment. No original structures survive except south of Oxford Circus for"
"and Liverpool Street on one of the longest gaps between stations in inner London. Although there would be benefits to this interchange, it was ruled out on grounds of cost, the disruption it would cause to the Central line while being built, and because the platforms would be too close to sidings at Liverpool Street; the proposal will not be reconsidered until after Crossrail is fully operational in late 2019. Liverpool Street is one of the four railway stations present on the British version of Monopoly, along with King's Cross, and Marylebone. All four stations were termini of LNER services"
"Other resident companies of Regent Centre include the National Health Service (NHS) and the Department for Transport among others. Greggs, the largest national retail bakery, originally started with John Gregg's single shop on Gosforth High Street in 1951; initially Greggs was known as Greggs of Gosforth. In 1968 Greggs opened their first large-scale bakery on the Gosforth Industrial Estate, but in 2011 moved to a £16.5 million site in Gosforth Business Park on Gosforth Park Way. In 2012 the Greggs on the High Street was given a concept makeover depicting their 'Greggs the Bakery' format. Procter & Gamble plc formerly"
"green color, deriving from the ""Monopoly"" game board, by passing ""Go"" and collecting $200 in a hope that the user could make money on the information he would find. The Bloomberg keyboard includes a unique <MENU> key which navigates back to the previous function used. If no previous commands are found, <MENU> displays a list of related functions. Similarly, the ""History"" key will populate the command-line with previously used functions in reverse chronological order, as the ""Up"" arrow key function does in certain command prompts. The yellow hotkeys along the top of the keyboard are used to enter market sectors,"
"3 of 4 in other color groups), they may begin to build houses and hotels there, with rent doubled on any undeveloped properties. If they own all properties in a color-group, they may upgrade their hotels to Skyscrapers, which increase rent considerably (by $/£500 on First and Second Street properties, and by $/£1000 on Third and Fourth Streets) and charge TRIPLE rent on any unimproved properties. In the case of the Utilities, owning all 3 allows the owner to charge 20 times the dice roll (white dice only) of the opponent landing there. (""NOTE: The CHANCE card that sends you"
"After she arrived, Hoskins made a new board with Atlantic City street names, and taught it to a group of friends, who ultimately passed in on to Charles Darrow, who made some modifications to the game and claimed it as his own invention. Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, ""Marven Gardens"". The misspelling was said to have been introduced by Charles Todd and passed on when his home-made ""Monopoly"" board was copied by Charles Darrow and thence Parker Brothers. It was not until 1995 that Parker Brothers acknowledged"
"the Crown Estate, which owns most of Regent Street on behalf of the Queen, started a major redevelopment programme. In 2013 the Estate sold a quarter of the Regent Street Quadrant 3 building to the Norwegian Oil Fund, while later that year, Hackett London bought the lease for the Ferrari store on Regent Street for £4m. Smaller shops have been replaced by larger units; the street is now the flagship location of several major brands, including Apple and Banana Republic. The largest part of the plan was the reconstruction of the Quadrant close to Piccadilly Circus, which was completed in"
"based at No. 34 Bow Street since 1994. A police station in Bow Street is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Man with the Twisted Lip"". At the station, Holmes reveals that the beggar Hugh Boone is the aristocrat Neville St. Clair in disguise. Bow Street is one of the streets on the British version of the game Monopoly, which is based in London. It forms a group with Marlborough Street and Vine Street, all of which have connections to the police and law. Citations Sources Bow Street Bow Street is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster, London. It"
"elements in it that link the Landlord’s Game and the Monopoly Game together"". The Darrow family initially made their game sets on flexible, round pieces of oilcloth instead of rigid, square carton. Charles drew the designs of the properties with drafting pens, and his son and wife filled in the spaces with colors and made the title deed cards and Chance and Community Chest cards. On these first round boards, Darrow included some of the icons (actually designed for him by a hired graphic artist) that the later ""Monopoly"" made famous, such as the large red arrow for ""Go"", the"