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Where the city's ambition goes to get a lawn and a mortgage.
means A residential district on the outskirts of a city, built for commuting rather than walking to work.
from From Latin suburbium, fusing sub ('under, near, below') with urbs ('city') — literally the land lying just beneath or beside the city's walls. Romans used it for the settlements clustered outside the gates; English borrowed it whole in the medieval period, and it has spent centuries drifting further and further from the urbs it's named after.
- name origin
- latin suburbium, literally under the city
- design flaw
- built for cars, so you need one to exist
- irony
- people flee density then beg for a walkable downtown
- true purpose
- maximum privacy, minimum destination