by JohnRussell

Throughout my life, I have been inexplicably drawn towards the city and, in particular, the industrial spaces therein. These massive swaths of land, devoted exclusively to production, hold a certain mystical appeal that continually pulls me back. I have lived in three cities – Cleveland, Austin, New York...

by eastcoast

For almost my entire life prior to college, I grew up in a suburb called Silver Spring. Located in Maryland, Silver Spring borders Washington DC. I lived in a decent sized house that was built about 70 years ago, on about a quarter acre plot of land. My Dad likes to call Silver Spring the "barely burbs"...

by asif

I'm not a fan of suburban communities. Aesthetically, I think they're boring. Economically, I think they're excessive. The suburban sprawl is an outdated concept, one that should be replaced with more innovative ideas. Nonetheless, I grew up in one of these passé anomalies, and while my critical brain scorns...

by Clare

I was born and raised in Pasadena, California, and in my 20 years of life, the word suburb has not been mentioned once in reference to my home. It turns out however, if you Google "Pasadena, California suburb," that the question of whether or not Pasadena is a suburb has been brought up many times and has invoked...

by Mina

One of the things I love about my neighborhood in Istanbul is the fact that it has a rich historical background.   I truly believe a place does not have a “spirit” unless there are memories and stories people have lived through before you.  My neighborhood is called Yesilkoy, it is located along the...

by Daniel

I first learned about Levittown on some corner of the Internet when I was a junior in high school. I suppose I understood the concept of suburbia well enough, but I’d never taken the time or the interest to really put it in context as a particularly American, particularly postwar response to a crisis...

by Batman

I've always lived in the lower-middle class urban parts of the city of Indianapolis. Ironically, this winter while back home I was speaking to my best friend (an Algerian immigrant who fled a civil war and who now lives in the upper-middle class suburbs in Indiana) about my take on the suburban scenery; minus the...

by Taylor

In the 2009 film Up in the Air, the word "home" is used just five times but with each use of the word comes a purposeful emphasis on what the word means to the characters in the scene.

Ryan Bingham (played by George Clooney) works for a corporation, which flies him around the U.S. firing people from...

by Ism2021

I grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a small suburb just outside Washington, D.C. The town is rather spread out and there are no formal boundaries, so I’m not entirely sure where it begins and ends, but there is the typically accepted downtown area, which has undergone significant renovations over the past decade, and...