suburb

Introduction

suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent., particularly in the United States, population growth in urban areas spilled increasingly outside the city limits and concentrated there, resulting in large metropolitan areas where the populations of the suburbs taken together exceed that of the central city.

Sections in this article:

Introduction
Suburbs in Twentieth-Century America and Beyond
History of Suburbs
Bibliography

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