suburbanise

Thân thiện

The city began to suburbanise, with new houses and parks appearing.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):

   • To cause an area to adopt the characteristics of a suburb. This involves transforming a place, often a city or its outskirts, to have features typical of residential suburbs, such as lower population density, single-family homes, and increased car dependency.

2. Verb (intransitive):

   • To take on suburban character. This describes the process by which an area itself changes and develops the physical and social qualities associated with suburbs.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (transitive):
  • The construction of the new highway helped to suburbanise the surrounding farmland.
  • Planners worry that the new development will suburbanise the historic town center.
• Verb (intransitive):
  • Over the decades, the villages near the capital began to suburbanise rapidly.
  • As more families moved in, the area suburbanised, with shopping malls replacing local stores.

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a neutral descriptive meaning in urban studies but can imply criticism in socio-economic contexts, suggesting homogenization, sprawl, or a decline in urban vitality.
  • Critics argue that the policy will merely suburbanise poverty rather than solve it.

Variants and Related Words

• Suburbanize: The preferred spelling in American English.
• Suburbanisation (n), Suburbanization (n): The process or fact of making or becoming suburban.
  • The suburbanisation of America accelerated after World War II.
• Suburban (adj): Of, relating to, or characteristic of a suburb.
• Suburb (n): An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.

Synonyms

• Develop: To build on or improve land.
• Sprawl: To spread out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way (often used negatively for suburban growth).

Related Phrases

• Urban sprawl: The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural land, often resulting in low-density, car-dependent communities. This is a common result of suburbanisation.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make suburban in character
   • highly suburbanized cities
2. take on suburban character
   • the city suburbanized

Từ đồng nghĩa

• suburbanize