Suburbanization

Commissioners site suburbanization, environment, and character as issues.

In the final written decision on the project, the commission outlined its concerns about the environment, suburbanization, and Island character.

While I personally feel intensified suburbanization of the countryside is horrible, that's neither here nor there.

The effects of suburbanization show up in the data in several ways, including the decrease in bus riders and the spike in subway and rail commuters.

A big factor in the decline has been the rapid increase in suburbanization.

As in other major American cities in the postwar era, construction of an extensive highway and freeway system around Detroit and pent-up demand for new housing stimulated suburbanization; highways made commuting by car easier.

At the same time, suburbanization had resulted in a declining tax base in the city, although many suburban residents used unique city amenities and services which were supported only by city taxpayers.

In addition, suburbanization and highway development drew more established, middle-class people out of center cities for newer housing.

In addition, suburbanization had been drawing off many of the wealthier residents to outlying railroad commuting towns and newer housing.

It was not until the installation of a streetcar line in 1890 and the beginnings of suburbanization in the early 1900s that Bethesda began to grow in population.

Page 142. "Perhaps suburbanization was a 'natural' phenomenon—rising incomes allowing formerly huddled masses in city neighborhoods to breathe free on green lawn and leafy culs-de-sac.

Suburbanization played only a small role in Erfurt.

Suburbanization played only a small role in Weimar.

Suburbanization was attracting wealthier residents to newer housing outside the city.

These conditions have been met in the U.S. largely as a result of suburbanization and other postindustrial phenomena.

The years after World War II were a time of rapid suburbanization as new housing was built outside the city limits.

This growth in part, has shaped the greater Bay Area as it is today in terms of geographic population distribution and the trend of suburbanization away from the valley.

When the residential area shifts outward, this is called suburbanization.