Since the emergence of the garden suburbs in the UK in the early 20th century and mass suburbanisation since the early 1950s, suburbs have come to hold a special place in the geographical, political, sociological, and cultural imaginations of academics, policymakers, and society. The suburbs are where the majority of people in Anglosphere and Western and Northern European nations live. They represent an idealised utopian space of a property-owning democracy, a place of/for escapism from the pressures of work in the city, a space for children deemed safe to play in, and a space of...
Since the emergence of the garden suburbs in the UK in the early 20th century and mass suburbanisation since the early 1950s, suburbs have ...
