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A trip to the suburbs

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May 21, 2025

ONCE associated with insalubrious activities and decried by John Ruskin as inchoate, amorphous places swallowing up vast tracts of countryside, suburbia and its development is now traced in a new book, England's Suburbs 1820-2020, by Joanna Smith and Matthew Whitfield, published by Historic England in partnership with Liverpool University Press ($40).

- Jack Watkins

A trip to the suburbs

As the authors note, the past 50 years have seen the adoption of more nuanced views on suburbs, encouraged by the conservation agenda and a realisation that they were 'no longer marginal places but where the majority lived'.

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