Suburbia
Residential areas the style of which evolved from 19th c. ideals associated with the Arts-and-Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, and with the Domestic Revival and Garden Suburb… 2. Pejorative term associated with philistinism, conformity, and dullness, and used by Modernists to promote high-rise urban developments: however, demand for suburban houses (with gardens ever smaller, spaces between buildings ever narrower, and architectural content wholly evaporated) seems insatiable, despite ever-growing problems of pollution caused by car-ownership and over-stretched infrastructures. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)