suburbia

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The sights and sounds of summer suburbia assaulted me.
夏日郊区的景致与声音扑面而来。
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，或者南方富有区域的居民，中产阶层的郊区居民跟工党和保守党都没有血缘和历史上的关系。
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.
与其说他的郊区是一个地方，不如说他一个对墨守成规的郊区规划者和建筑者们的最为实际的反抗，也可以说是对部分古老的英格兰村落的保存。

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.