Quotes: Urbanization, Suburbia

(residential areas that have been connected to each other during rush hours by long traffic jams)

suburb
1. A district lying immediately outside a city or town; especially, a smaller residential community.
2. Usually a residential region around a major city; the environs.
suburbia
1. A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
2. Suburbs collectively, or the people who live in them.
urbanism
1. The culture or way of life of city dwellers.
2. Urbanization.
urbanization
The expansion of a city or metropolitan area, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time.

Quotations

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
—Bill Vaughn


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