This is a direct result of the suburbia lifestyle, whose other negative implications are well documented.
All reflect changes in the corporate mindset that spawned the campuses dotting outer suburbia.
In the Jinqiao neighborhood in eastern Shanghai lies a picture-perfect replica of American suburbia.
Miss Didion asks what will become of this suburbia built to supply a now defunct industry?
So it ought to matter little that architectural snobs think suburbia ugly and repetitive.
We are witnessing a continued shift of Asians to suburbia in almost all regions.
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So it is perhaps not surprising that inter-war suburbia should now be praised.
Urban planners continue to believe they can restrain suburbia and improve upon it.
The book takes in not just semi- detached suburbia but commuter towns, shopping villages, mobile-home parks and jerry-rigged coastal settlements.
Suburbia will survive the shift, but suburbs themselves will change as driving becomes too expensive an option for many Americans.
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Strung along the coast, 20-minutes north of the Sultanahmet neighbourhood, these three perfect pockets of suburbia are where modern Istanbul life plays out.
One reason is that suburbia is now an economic powerhouse: decaying cities, such as Detroit, are surrounded by hives of industry.
Architects, planners and developers identified them as opponents of their grand plans to refashion suburbia into a denser, more rental-oriented environment.
Some people put this down to a growing and increasingly affluent population, with the three-car garage becoming the norm in suburbia.
His image appears on every single one of his album covers - except the UK release of The Buddha Of Suburbia.
The big difference is that while the corporations of the fifties sparked the growth of suburbia, Hsieh is targeting the urban core.
One hopeful is Steve Stivers, running for a district that includes most of Columbus, the capital, and a big swathe of suburbia.
It is not a plan for those whose priority is preserving beauty, or for those who fear the endless encroachment of suburbia.
Trains drive themselves between downtown and suburbia, homes keep comfortably cool and airy on their own, diagnostic machines perform check-ups and prescribe remedies.
It's a succulent oasis on 3 acres that uses very little water, a surprisingly exotic island of sculptural desert plants surrounded by suburbia.
Her encounters along the way clue us into her shared isolation: suburbia is a place where everyone spins in their sealed-up emotional orbits.
In an hour or so Spetter can get a 1, 000hp engine to set speed records and smoothly cruise through suburbia without overheating in traffic.
With her patent-attorney boyfriend she met at a Mensa event, she heads from Zombie Pox to Suburbia, an intricate strategy game of competitive urban planning.
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Swindon, a Victorian railway town in Wiltshire, and Milton Keynes, a chunk of American suburbia in the middle of Buckinghamshire, are growing just as fast (see chart).
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In America, the famous aerial pictures of Long Island's Levittown in the 1950s, which showed identical, boxy houses marching across bare earth, helped fix a depressing image of suburbia.
This reasoning does not take suburbia into account at all, with one delivery truck stopping at multiple homes, streamlining the entire delivery process over 25 cars going to 25 houses.
Just as Britain pioneered suburbia with its cosy mock Tudor, Wright created a new vernacular for American architecture, which can be seen in homes throughout the country in some degree.
When I first imagined a series about the Chinese countryside, little did I imagine I'd be looking down at rows of identical, red-roofed houses a perfect transplant from American suburbia.
DiCaprio and Winslet starred together in the hugely successful Titanic movie, and teamed up again for Revolutionary Road, a grim inspection of married life in suburbia, which was directed by Mendes.
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