exurban

♦ Where people live who drive an hour to a well paying job. ♦ Where your neighbor's house is 100 ft from your own and both are 50 meters (164.041 feet) from the road. ♦ Where gated communities are built with 2 acre lots and the homeowners association is constantly in fear of non-conformity and people using that land to grow their own food as well as any landscape which is reverting to it's natural state. ♦ Where your neighborhood centers around a golf course and the closest retail is 4 miles (6.43737 km) away ♦ Where your zip code's tallest building rises 2 storeys and the population density never goes beyond 1,000 people per square mile. ♦ Where rich white people go in order to avoid ethnic minorities, same thing with their country clubs. ♦ Where the water table is irreversibly contaminated by all the lawn chemicals the residents use. ♦ Where the treeless lawn surrounding one's ranch house is used for parking, sports, and an area where one's many dogs and children can run wild and wreck havoc. ♦ Areas idealized by people like Frank Lloyd Wright and Joel Garreau (writer of Edge Cities). ♦ Areas reviled by people such as Paolo Soleri and James Howard Kunstler.