suburbanization

1. The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city. In the United States, many suburbs were created after World War II, during a period of tremendous growth in population and industry. Suburban dwellers typically work in the cities but raise their families in a less-congested, safer, and more relaxed atmosphere. Especially in the United States, suburbanization often is associated with the sprawl of population.

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“Robert Moses will be remembered as a key actor in the rise of New York, not its fall,” wrote Jackson, the now-retired Columbia University historian and author of suburbanization history Crabgrass Frontier.

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A boom in swimming pool construction tied to the post-war suburbanization of the state was another factor popularizing an idealized California lifestyle built around leisure and recreation.

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The “suburbanization of poverty” has been occurring in metropolitan areas across the country, but Seattle is unusual in how early it happened here, said Peter Hepburn, one of the study’s authors.

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The American middle class was created through white suburbanization and a massive expansion in the economy.

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“We’ve heard about basically the suburbanization of poverty, ‘Drive until you qualify.’

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