suburbia

n.

1. The suburbs.
2. 1. Suburbanites considered as a group.
   2. Suburbanites considered as a cultural class.

1. Residential areas the style of which evolved from C19 ideals associated with the Arts-and-Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, and with the Domestic Revival and Garden Suburb (e.g. Bedford Park, Chiswick, London (from 1877) and Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (from 1906) ), though very often as a travesty, based more on commerce than aesthetics. These low-rise developments on the fringes of towns were supposed to be attempts to combine rural and urban advantages, but those benefits were often so diluted they became meaningless. The suburb, with its detached and semi-detached houses set in individual gardens, offered a style of living to which many aspired, and became ubiquitous first through the development of railways and tramways, and then through the widespread use of the private motor car. Suburbia generally lacked shops, public-houses, etc., which to some was a blessing. Suburbia must not be confused with satellite towns or Garden Cities.

2. Pejorative term associated with philistinism, conformity, and dullness, and used by Modernists to promote high-rise urban developments: despite all the blandishments, however, the demand for suburban houses (with gardens ever smaller, spaces between buildings ever narrower, and architectural content wholly evaporated) seems insatiable, despite ever-growing problems of pollution caused by car ownership and over-stretched infrastructures.

Bibliography

• H. Barrett & T. Phillips (1987)
• Fishman (1987)
• P. Oliver et al. (1981)
• J.Richards (1973)
• F. Thompson (ed.) (1981)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forstæder, forstadskvarterer, forstadsmentalitet

Nederlands (Dutch)
het leven in de buitenwijken

Français (French)
n. - la banlieue

Deutsch (German)
n. - die Vororte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τα (μεσοαστικά) προάστια, οι κάτοικοι ή η ζωή των προαστίων

Italiano (Italian)
sobborghi, la periferia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - subúrbios (m pl)

Русский (Russian)
предместья и их жители, мещанство

Español (Spanish)
n. - suburbios, afueras, alrededores

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förorterna, förortsborna, förortsmentalitet, förortsliv

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
郊区, 郊区居民

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 郊區, 郊區居民

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 경멸, 주민, 시골뜨기식

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 郊外地, 郊外住民

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ضواجي المدينه , سكان الضواحي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הפרוורים, תושביהם ודרך-חייהם‬

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