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==In popular culture== | ==In popular culture== | ||
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]] | |||
}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||