suburbia

is a history reaching back one hundred and thirty years over which time urban dwellers have tried to escape the city's grime, immigrants, and disorder and searched for outlying retreats with institutional structures to protect their preserves when distance alone did not suffice.

The history of suburban America reaches back one hundred and thirty years . For at least that long, urban dwellers have tried to escape the city's grime, immigrants, and disorder and searched for outlying retreats with institutional structures to protect their preserves when distance alone did not suffice. Evolution of the Suburbs

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