Indeed, there are some cities where the suburban shopping pulls customers who are geographically much nearer to downtown.

If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

Between 1850 and 1900, Cambridge took on much of its present character — streetcar suburban development along the turnpikes, with working-class and industrial neighborhoods focused on East Cambridge, comfortable middle-class housing being built on old estates in Cambridgeport and Mid-Cambridge, and upper-class enclaves near Harvard University and on the minor hills of the city.

Commuter / suburban trains are usually optimized for maximum passenger volume, in most cases without sacrificing too much comfort and luggage space, though they seldom have all the amenities of long-distance trains.

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural ( watershed ).

Inner-city or urban schools were much more likely than other schools to report serious violent crimes, with 17 percent of city principals reporting at least one serious crime compared to 11 percent of urban schools, 10 percent of rural schools, and five percent of suburban schools in the 1997 school year.

Whereas these cities are dense, with major downtown populations and significant rail and transit systems, much of Southern California is famous for its large, spread-out, suburban communities and use of automobiles and highways.

Although San Antonio had over 650, 000 people at the time ( and has since grown to become the seventh-largest city in the United States ), it has always been a medium-sized market because the surrounding suburban and rural areas aren't much larger than the city itself.

Route 28 is a two-to four-lane road its entire length that passes through suburban areas and runs within a close distance of New Jersey Transit ’ s Raritan Valley Line for much of its length.

Along with much of the Santa Clara Valley, Los Gatos became a suburban community for San Jose beginning in the 1950s, and the town was mostly built-out by the 1980s.

The area around Los Gatos Boulevard, east of Highway 17, is much more typically suburban than downtown, with medium-sized shopping centers clustered at major intersections of the multilane boulevard.

Beyond this point to the west, much of the city takes on a suburban nature.

Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Chesapeake was either suburban or rural, serving as a bedroom community of the adjacent cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach with residents commuting to these locations.

In fact, the total value for building permits in June 2007 is close to that of the much larger Memphis suburban county of DeSoto County, MS.

The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core, and it was largely from this time onwards that the area ( including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner ) assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

As one of the outer London Boroughs it can be shown to be in two parts: urban and rural, the former to the north and very much part of the built-up area which is suburban London.

) and the suburban and working class hinterlands ( like Seine-Saint-Denis ) of urban agglomerations ( called variously banlieues (" suburbs ", sometimes qualified as " chic " or " pauvres ") or les cités (" housing projects ") which have developed their own " sense of place " and local culture ( much like the various boroughs of New York City or suburbs of Los Angeles ), as well as cultural identity.

After several decades of being not much more than a handful of crossroads, Hainesville finally exploded into a sprawling suburban neighborhood.

Since much of Huntertown's growth has come from people moving from urbanized areas like Fort Wayne to new suburban subdivisions, the expectations for services have increased.

In the 1970s, much Hacienda Heights, particularly along the northern slopes of Puente Hills, was developed for suburban single family housing, which attracted younger, more affluent and educated families.

However, similarly to the changes in much of Long Island, the hamlet has transformed into a densely populated suburban area in recent decades.

In 1914, a serious dispute among Moon Township residents split the Township, separating the heavily populated suburban section in the North from the much larger sparsely populated region in the South and West.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

And please it did, in every sense of the word, for it had the audience shouting much of the time in a manner far from typical of London audiences.

In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.

Albinus, the abbot of the monastery in Canterbury, provided much information about the church in Kent, and with the assistance of Nothhelm, at that time a priest in London, obtained copies of Gregory the Great's correspondence from Rome relating to Augustine's mission.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

Some are much more subtle and don't parody horror, such as An American Werewolf In London.

After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

However, by the mid 8th century much of the kingdom, including London, had fallen to Mercia and the rump of Essex, roughly the modern county, was now subordinate to the same.

London is divided into the small City of London and the much wider Greater London.

On 2 and 3 September, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the centre of London.

In 1823, at the suggestion of the manager of the King's Theatre, London, he came to England, being much fêted on his way through Paris.

In London in the early 18th century, much gin was distilled legally in residential houses ( there were estimated to be 1, 500 residential stills in 1726 ), and was often flavoured with turpentine-to generate resinous woody notes in addition to the juniper.

Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period.

As London grew, Hertfordshire became conveniently close to the English capital ; much of the area was owned by the nobility and aristocracy, this patronage helped to boost the local economy.

Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.