
thumb|A suburban land use planning|land use pattern in the United States ([[Colorado Springs, Colorado), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road.]]
thumb|A suburban land use planning|land use pattern in the United States ([[Colorado Springs, Colorado), showing a mix of residential streets and cul-de-sacs intersected by a four-lane road.]]
Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs. Most suburbs are built in a formation of (sub)urban sprawl. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses away from city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas grow. Proponents of curbing suburbanization argue that sprawl leads to urban decay and a concentration of lower-income residents in the inner city, in addition to environmental harm.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).