and T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, turtle, a squirrel, and their friends who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology while becoming enticed by it at the same time. A film adaptation of Over the Hedge was produced in 2006. British television series such as The Good Life, Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going stir crazy. In contrast, U.S. shows such as Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives and Weeds portray the suburbs as concealing darker secrets behind a façade of manicured lawns, friendly people, and beautifully kept houses. Films such as The 'Burbs and Disturbia have brought this theme to the cinema. See also Notes References Bibliography Archer, John; Paul J.P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson (eds.), Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Baxandall, Rosalyn and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Beauregard, Robert A. When America Became Suburban. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Basic Books, 1987; in U.S. Galinou, Mireille. Cottages and Villas: The Birth of the Garden Suburb (2011), in England Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960 (2004) Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000. Vintage Books, 2003. Stilgoe, John R. Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939. Yale University Press, 1989. Teaford, Jon C. The American Suburb: The Basics. Routledge, 2008. External links A Future Vision for the North American Suburb Centre for Suburban Studies Images of a mature north London suburb illustrating a wide range of domestic architecture The end of suburbia (documentary film) City Types of populated places Urban planning Squatting