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==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==
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Suburbs and suburban living have been the subject for a wide variety of films, books, television shows and songs.
Suburbs and suburban living have been the subject for a wide variety of films, books, television shows and songs.


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British television series such as ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' and ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going [[Stir crazy (condition)|stir crazy]]. In contrast, U.S. shows such as ''[[Knots Landing]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' and ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]'' portray the suburbs as concealing darker secrets behind a façade of manicured lawns, friendly people, and beautifully kept houses. Films such as ''[[The 'Burbs]]'' and ''[[Disturbia (film)|Disturbia]]'' have brought this theme to the cinema.
British television series such as ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' and ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going [[Stir crazy (condition)|stir crazy]]. In contrast, U.S. shows such as ''[[Knots Landing]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' and ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]'' portray the suburbs as concealing darker secrets behind a façade of manicured lawns, friendly people, and beautifully kept houses. Films such as ''[[The 'Burbs]]'' and ''[[Disturbia (film)|Disturbia]]'' have brought this theme to the cinema.
== See also ==
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
* [[Bibliography of suburbs]]
* [[Criticism of suburbia]]
* [[Boomburb]]s
* [[Ethnoburb]]
* [[Faubourg]]
* [[Microdistrict]]
* [[Developed environments]]
* [[Human settlement|Settlement types]]
* [[Rural–urban fringe]]
* [[Slum]]
* [[Subdivision (land)|Subdivision]]
* [[List of satellite cities by population]]
}}
== Notes ==
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==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== Bibliography ==
{{Main list|Bibliography of suburbs}}
{{refbegin}}
* Archer, John; Paul J.P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson (eds.), ''Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America.'' Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
* Baxandall, Rosalyn and Elizabeth Ewen. ''Picture Windows:  How the Suburbs Happened.'' New York:  Basic Books, 2000.
* Beauregard, Robert A. '' When America Became Suburban''.  University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
* {{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Robin |year=1960 |title=The Australian Ugliness |location=Melbourne |publisher=Penguin Books}}
* Fishman, Robert.  ''Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia''.  Basic Books, 1987; in U.S.
* {{cite book|last=Foxell|first=Clive|title=Chesham Shuttle: The Story of a Metropolitan Branch Line|edition=2nd|year=1996|publisher=Clive Foxell|isbn=0-9529184-0-4}}
* Galinou, Mireille. ''Cottages and Villas: The Birth of the Garden Suburb'' (2011), in England
* {{cite book|last=Green|first=Oliver|year=1987|title=The London Underground: An illustrated history|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing|Ian Allan]]|isbn=0-7110-1720-4}}
* {{cite book|title=Metro-Land|edition=British Empire Exhibition 1924 reprinted|year=2004|isbn=1-904915-00-0|editor-first=Oliver|editor-last=Green|publisher=Southbank Publishing|url=http://www.southbankpublishing.com/9781904915003/introduction.php|access-date=22 April 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080628202202/http://www.southbankpublishing.com/9781904915003/introduction.php|archive-date=28 June 2008|url-status=dead}}
* Harris, Richard. ''Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960'' (2004)
* Hayden, Dolores.  ''Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000''.  Vintage Books, 2003.
* {{cite book|last=Horne|first=Mike|title=The Metropolitan Line|year=2003|publisher=Capital Transport|isbn=1-85414-275-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/metropolitanline00mike}}
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* {{cite book|title=London's Metropolitan Railway|last=Jackson|first=Alan|year=1986|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=0-7153-8839-8}}
* {{cite book|title=The English landscape in the twentieth century|last=Rowley|first=Trevor|year=2006|publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Hambledon Continuum]]|isbn=1-85285-388-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/englishlandscape0000rowl}}
* {{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Bill|title=A History of the Metropolitan Railway. Volume 1: The Circle and Extended Lines to Rickmansworth.|publisher=Lamplight Publications|year=2003|isbn=1-899246-07-X}}
* Stilgoe, John R.  ''Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939''.  Yale University Press, 1989.
* [[Jon C. Teaford|Teaford, Jon C.]]  ''The American Suburb: The Basics''.  Routledge, 2008.
{{refend}}
==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100105102559/http://knol.google.com/k/steven-chong/a-future-vision-for-the-north-american/2e3144udfqrpg/5 A Future Vision for the North American Suburb]
* [http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/suburban-studies Centre for Suburban Studies]
* [http://www.hgs.org.uk/mystreet/index.html Images of a mature north London suburb illustrating a wide range of domestic architecture]
* [http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ The end of suburbia] (documentary film)
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