suburbanize
Definition
- Verb (transitive):
- To cause an area to adopt the characteristics of a suburb. This involves transforming a place, often a city or its periphery, to have features typical of residential suburbs, such as single-family homes, car dependency, and lower population density.
- Verb (intransitive):
- For an area to take on or acquire the character of a suburb. This describes the process by which a place becomes more like a suburb over time.
Usage
- As a transitive verb, "suburbanize" takes a direct object (the area being transformed).
- As an intransitive verb, it describes the process happening to a subject (the area that is changing).
Examples
- Transitive usage:
- The construction of new highways helped suburbanize the surrounding farmland.
- Planners worried the new development would suburbanize the historic rural character of the county.
- Intransitive usage:
- As more families moved out of the city center, the neighboring towns began to suburbanize.
- The region has suburbanized rapidly over the past two decades.
Advanced Usage
- "Suburbanizing" (present participle/adjective): Describing an area currently undergoing this process.
- The suburbanizing edge of the metropolis faces unique infrastructure challenges.
- Often used in sociological, geographical, and urban planning contexts to discuss patterns of urban growth and land use change.
Variants and Related Words
- Suburbanization (n): The process or phenomenon of suburbanizing.
- The post-war era saw rapid suburbanization in the United States.
- Suburban (adj): Of or relating to a suburb.
- They preferred the suburban lifestyle.
- Suburb (n): A residential district situated on the outskirts of a city.
- They live in a quiet suburb.
Synonyms
- Transitive sense: Convert to suburbia, develop into suburbs.
- Intransitive sense: Become suburban.
Antonyms
- Urbanize: To make or become urban in character.
- Gentrify: To renovate and improve (a district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste (often an inner-city process, contrasting with outward suburbanization).
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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