verb
- present participle of suburbanize: making an area more suburban in character; developing suburban communities
Examples
- The city is suburbanizing its outer districts with new housing developments.
- Rapid population growth is suburbanizing the farmland around the metropolitan area.
- The government’s policy of suburbanizing the region has changed the landscape dramatically.
- Developers are suburbanizing the countryside by building shopping centers and residential complexes.
- The suburbanizing trend has created new communities outside the city center.
- Local officials are concerned about suburbanizing agricultural land.