Would you consider this area suburban?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

While it's true that some suburbs cease to be that as the urban area extends outwards (obvious examples would include pre-Industrial suburbs (such as the Frankwell district in Shrewsbury (yes, I use it as an example all the time, but it really is a fascinating area) and the oldest 19th century suburban districts; such as Edgbaston (one of the world's first modern suburbs) in Birmingham), there's nothing that says that a district built up in 1930 (or 1870 or whenever) cannot still be a suburb, and genuinely so, in 2007.

[Alcon]

How is a neighbourhood with houses 70 years old or older suburban?

...There were suburbs in the 1930s.

Yes, but they can't be called suburbs these days. No one would call Ottawa's 1930 suburbs suburbs today.

Why can't they be, if they are sub-urban?

[Hatman 🍁]

How is a neighbourhood with houses 70 years old or older suburban?

...There were suburbs in the 1930s.

Yes, but they can't be called suburbs these days. No one would call Ottawa's 1930 suburbs suburbs today.

Why can't they be, if they are sub-urban?

Because they become urban as the city expands.

[Alcon]

Because they become urban as the city expands.

There are new suburban developments that are more dense than my neighborhood out in the middle of the sticks.  Are those urban?

[Hatman 🍁]

Because they become urban as the city expands.

There are new suburban developments that are more dense than my neighborhood out in the middle of the sticks.  Are those urban?

It's not always about density. I wouldn't call Central Park suburban, yet it's not very dense

[Verily]

No. Maybe inner suburban. Streets are too straight. Then again, I come from a place where all suburban streets are not straight.

Depends on how old the suburban development is. In my area, none of the houses are less than 70 years old and all of the streets are straight as arrows, but it's definitely suburban.

How is a neighbourhood with houses 70 years old or older suburban?

My neighborhood is definitely suburban but definitely that old. Geographic barriers (the Hudson River) prevent the expansion of urban development in our case.

[Alcon]

It's not always about density. I wouldn't call Central Park suburban, yet it's not very dense

Err...I would call Central Park not an area of residence, unless you count park benches.  But, if Central Park is an urban area because it is full of people, why not a Wal-Mart? 

And, again, I don't see how it not all being about density means age is a dealbreaker.

[opebo]

Yes. Anyways, I can assure you that any suburb in the United States (even with public high rise apartment blocks and much crime) is far far far far far superior than any suburb you can find in, say, Rio de Janeiro or Bangkok or Lagos. And that anyone "poor" in the United States is still in the top 10% in the world as a whole. Consider yourself lucky.

No, this is totally wrong Dean.   Certainly here in Thailand there are vast suburbs around Bangkok full of middle class strivers.  People with incomes of $1,000 a month have better lives than plenty of suburbanites back in the pricey USA.

[MODU]

No, it is a martian colony.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Would you consider this a suburb?



Or this?



Or this? OMG... total suburbs...