suburbanise
Definition
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.
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.
Verb
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make suburban in character
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highly suburbanized cities
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take on suburban character
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the city suburbanized
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