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suburbanism

  • a word derived from suburban.
    suburban
    adjective
    pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.

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Rural pride abuts an expanding and inescapable suburbanism.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

Ms. Carey’s idea of ho-hum suburbanism and vicious glamour are a riot.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2015

To students of urban form, these outcomes are not that surprising because 10 to 20 units per acre is the density at which drivable suburbanism transitions into walkable urbanism.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2012

But for my part I doubt whether there is any real profit to anybody in suburbanism.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson

Here and there a wise man may be found who resents this tyranny of suburbanism.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson