Title: Definition of suburbanization in Sociology, U.S. History.
Headings: suburbanization
suburbanization
Sociology
U.S. History
The process of suburbanizing, of population movement from cities to suburbs
Examples of suburbanization in the following topics:
Suburbanization
The Rural Rebound
Shrinking Cities and Counter-Urbanization
Instructional Scenarios
The Growth of Suburbs
The Process of Urbanization
Urban Decline
Urban Gentrification
The Middle Class
The Culture of Abundance and Consumerism

Content: Urban Gentrification
., education) characteristic of suburban residents. The new baby boomer residents departed from the suburban family idea, marrying later and having fewer children; women in the baby boomer generation were the first to enter the workforce in serious numbers. At this time, the suburban ideal was falling out of favor; fewer people were moving to suburbs and more were moving back to cities. These policies enabled black families to move out of urban centers and into the suburbs, thus decreasing the availability of suburban land, while integrationist policies encouraged white movement into traditionally black urban areas. During the two decades following World War II, low rents in the city's periphery encouraged suburban development; as capital investment moved to suburbs, inner-city property values fell. The Middle Class
An upscale home in suburban California, an example of the "conspicuous consumption" of the American middle class.