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CityLab Daily: How Should We Define the Suburbs?

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Suburban development: While most Americans live in suburbs, they also struggle to say what exactly a suburb is. At best, we know a suburb when we see one. But there’s real value to be found in crafting a standard definition of suburbia that goes beyond the leftover category between urban and rural.