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  2. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    Suburban housing in the regional city of Griffith, New South Wales in Australia. In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, suburban areas (in the wider sense noted in the lead paragraph) have become formalized as geographic subdivisions of a city and are used by postal services in addressing.

  3. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    As suburban industrial development becomes increasingly more profitable [citation needed], it becomes less financially attractive to build in high-density areas. Another impact of industry leaving the city is the reduction of buffer zones separating metropolitan areas, industrial parks and surrounding suburban residential areas. As this land ...

  4. Urban sprawl - Wikipedia

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    A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona An urban development in Palma, Mallorca. Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) [1] is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city".

  5. List of inner suburbs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, inner suburbs (sometimes known as "first-ring" suburbs) are the older, more densely populated communities of a metropolitan area with histories that significantly predate those of their suburban or exurban counterparts. Most inner suburbs share a common border with the principal city of the metropolitan area and developed ...

  6. List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia

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    Urban areas of the United States as of the 2020 census.. This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.

  7. The Complex Politics of the American Suburbs

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    Some suburban city councils used local police powers to aid in INS/ICE crackdowns on undocumented immigrants at factories, bus stops, and apartment buildings. Many suburbs passed ordinances ...

  8. Megacity - Wikipedia

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    Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading outwards of a city and its suburbs to its outskirts to low-density, auto-dependent development on rural land, with associated design features that encourage car dependency. [49]

  9. 17 Things You Wouldn't Know If You Never Lived in the Suburbs

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    4. Chain Restaurants Are the Norm. If you're living in a city, there's a good chance you're surrounded by neighborhood restaurants that you can't find anywhere else. In the suburbs, you are likely ...