As I walked its streets, I was struck by how much Forest Hills Gardens appears to embody what we often speak of as our suburban ideal.

Politicians have long been concerned with roads and their role in the suburban ideal.

Pure Oil developed a cheap, attractive design in the Tudor Revival style that fit the suburban aesthetic ideal.

Critics have lauded the architectural excellence of the buildings themselves, but believe suburban ideals have been engineered into the streetscape.

It depends on your point of view, or prejudices, but to me it is an image of the suburban ideal: relaxation in a private, tranquil setting.

"The Westchester" sounds more like the name for a developer's colonial-style tract house than a shopping mall, but then again, this place was designed to represent a kind of suburban ideal.

"Only a Dream" suggests that the suburban ideal of the perfect house, the perfect street and the perfect family is ultimately just an illusion.

They smelled awful and were, in fact, a repudiation of the suburban ideal above.

The earliest shopping centers, built on the peripheries of newly expanding suburbs, were meant to give physical expression to the suburban ideal.

The region is accustomed to the suburban ideal of one-family homes and the near-absolute separation of homes and commercial space.