Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being suburban.
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Examples
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I would also point out that the post-war boom period, the period of greatest planning and regulation in our history (also, a bit of a golden age IMHO), was also the beginning true suburbanism.
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I take that, you mean modern suburbanism leads to weaker communities?
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Which is why SHMOE MUST DIE for using the term “true suburbanism.”
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Most zoning ordinances do not just promote car-only suburbanism — they mandate it.
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I take that, you mean modern suburbanism leads to weaker communities?
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Which is why SHMOE MUST DIE for using the term “true suburbanism.”
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She was breaking up the linearity of the sterotypical “suburbanism” and its idea that the world had a plot arc like a mainstream movie.
The Illuminated Dream Tantra Bensko 2011
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"New York allows me to create and reflect this brand of East Coast upper-middle-class suburbanism."
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A Garden City approach might be a useful compromise between dense urbanism and spread-out suburbanism.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Also, and this is probably a lot more important, the very-long term economic philosophy of suburbanism and expanded car ownership.
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