suburbia

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The sights and sounds of summer suburbia assaulted me.
夏日郊區(qū)的景致與聲音撲面而來。
Unlike the residents of great northern cities, or gilded areas of the south, middling suburbia has no tribal or historical link with either Labour or the Conservatives.
不同于北方大城市的居民，或者南方富有區(qū)域的居民，中產(chǎn)階層的郊區(qū)居民跟工黨和保守黨都沒有血緣和歷史上的關(guān)系。
His suburbia is not so much a place as a kind of pragmatic resistance to the diktats of urban planners and architects, as well as to the stuffy preservation lobby that rules much of village England.
與其說他的郊區(qū)是一個地方，不如說他一個對墨守成規(guī)的郊區(qū)規(guī)劃者和建筑者們的最為實際的反抗，也可以說是對部分古老的英格蘭村落的保存。

All reflect changes in the corporate mindset that spawned the campuses dotting outer suburbia.
FORBES: Sara Lee and the Tax Break Carrot
Miss Didion asks what will become of this suburbia built to supply a now defunct industry?
ECONOMIST: California
So it ought to matter little that architectural snobs think suburbia ugly and repetitive.
ECONOMIST: Suburbs

the outer parts of a town, where there are houses, but no large shops, places of work, or places of entertainment

Journalists often use suburbia to refer to the suburbs of cities and large towns considered as a whole.