exurbia

This is true in Texas, as it is true in Southern California, New Jersey, Maine, Ohio, and any other blasted and blighted slice of exurbia where three gas stations rub up against an Applebee's and a Burger King.

Against the claustrophobic inertia of well-meaning family members, Valeria is propelled by the magnetic promise of self-realization into adventures at supercharged Manhattan parties, orgies in postmodern condos, and tours through the decrepit wilderness of exurbia. And then, as the ruins of reality slip behind, she journeys toward the fulfillment of the ambitious yearnings of an electronic generation.

Brown, D., Robinson, D., An, Li, Nassauer, Joan, Zellner, Moira, Rand, W., Riolo, R., Page, S, Low, B., Wang, Zhifang., (2008), Exurbia from bottom-up: Confronting empirical challenges to characterizing a complex system; Geoforum, 39, 805-818.

Self-defense while operating a mom-and-pop store in the inner city differs greatly from the same couple operating the same store in exurbia. But either can be robbed.

government has jumped headfirst into war in the Persian Gulf." The opening salvos of Desert Storm are immediately juxtaposed with the postmodern mosaic of city and country, exurbia and agro-business, industry and consumer outlets built--like New Orleans' Superdome--atop the ruins of earlier and now almost obliterated social formations.

Population flows out of rural areas and into the citied, but also out of the cities and into the rural (e.g exurbia).

"Exurbia" became the location of choice for young middle-class Americans to settle.

It will likely be easier to meet rural access to justice challenges in exurbia or the metropolitan periphery than in a more remote rural locale.

Noise emitted from road transport practically is one of the main sources of pollution in living environment of cities and around the exurbia roads.

Noise in the areas near the exurbia roads and highways is mainly produced by road traffic flow.

The outward demographic and economic expansion of most big cities means that spatial boundaries are most ambiguous or blurred at the urban-rural fringe or in exurbia, where commuters, consumers, and local citizens interact on a daily basis.

Taylor, "No boundaries: exurbia and the study of contemporary urban dispersion," GeoJournal, vol.