exurbia

"Exurbia," as one expert defined it, is just a suburb that takes longer to get to.

Little in exurbia suggests that we share any collective destiny on this planet.

I couldn't figure out how to tell the people in exurbia that I had written a book about them.

But in exurbia, each individual has his or her own polycentric nodes - the school, the church and the office park.

You drive farther out, and suddenly you're lost in the shapeless, mostly middle-class expanse of exurbia.

"So two seventeen-year-old kids in the deepest dark center of exurbia come up with four nines," I said.

Mechanic Street is not suburbia, or even exurbia.

Finding exurbia: America's fast-growing communities at the metropolitan fringe.

The folks of exurbia and their suburban brethren are consuming gasoline faster than we can produce it.

The flow of people moving into cities is but a trickle compared with the torrent moving out to exurbia.

Or when some executive vice president sends in a hockey play that worked with his son's peewee team in exurbia.

Mailboxes have long been an important esthetic symbol to many make-believe country squires here in exurbia.

The projects featured in the three test issues have primarily been in white, upper-middle-class suburbia or exurbia.

With no mountains or oceans to block Atlanta's growth, farmland and forest have been swiftly paved into nondescript exurbia.

This zone beyond suburbia is termed "exurbia".

Often there is a trade-off: a shopper sometimes must trek to outlying neighborhoods, other boroughs and exurbia.

The backdrop was exurbia.

Outlet stores, the name-brand discounters clustered at the far edge of exurbia, have leveled off, with about 300 nationwide.

The road cuts through a quiet swath of rolling cornfields and creeping exurbia on the southern flank of this capital city.

From Here to Exurbia "Not since Field of Dreams has a film so touched the heart and filled the soul!"

"People are moving back from exurbia," said Jerry Cloar, president of the Downtown Partnership.

There, in the midst of what used to be sparsely populated exurbia, a complete city streetscape was constructed, with sidewalks, street happenings and tall buildings.

Exurbia (Dark Horse Comics, 2009)

The desire for more and cheaper land that has pushed suburbs to rural exurbia may result in teen-agers who are alone for large parts of the day.

It is a principle that champions higher housing densities on urban, preferably brownfield land sites over dispersed settlements such as exurbia and eco-towns.