Some people put this down to a growing and increasingly affluent population, with the three-car garage becoming the norm in suburbia.
DiCaprio and Winslet starred together in the hugely successful Titanic movie, and teamed up again for Revolutionary Road, a grim inspection of married life in suburbia, which was directed by Mendes.
"People are saying 'we thought we bought our house in suburbia, or at least exurbia, and now someone is drilling an oil well here, " said Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore.
Opower, citing its own analysis and data from Experian, said the households are spread across 23 states but that those with Yahoo addresses tended to live in suburbia and thus inhabit bigger homes than urban-dwelling Gmailers.
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The results of this labor are songs like "Frank's Wild Years, " a hilarious and sinister tale of a man -- Frank -- trapped in suburbia with a wife and pet dog that has a skin disease.
Roads go where they never have before, both in American suburbia and in places like Patagonia, the untamed region at the southern tip of South America, where the Austral Highway was completed in 2000.
The main snag: because of their low speeds, today's electric cars are generally illegal on any street with posted speeds above 35 mph, making them only marginally more useful than a Segway in treacherous suburbia.
Swindon, a Victorian railway town in Wiltshire, and Milton Keynes, a chunk of American suburbia in the middle of Buckinghamshire, are growing just as fast (see chart).
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But this is the burden of creating this kind of work, a burden that perhaps comes from the dualistic life I have lived as an American citizen growing up in the comfort of suburbia while family members in Afghanistan fought, died and, yes, killed in their battle against an invading army.
We are witnessing a continued shift of Asians to suburbia in almost all regions.
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But the heart of the book is the story of how this full-blown late Romantic grew up in semi-detached suburbia by the River Thames during the second world war, and set out from there in search of a rainbow that turned out to be made of celluloid.
Never hesitant about redesigning the environment as his personal Utopia, he promoted his plan for Broadacre City, developed in the 1930s, as a decentralized alternative to suburbia where skyscrapers rose in pastoral settings.
In an hour or so Spetter can get a 1, 000hp engine to set speed records and smoothly cruise through suburbia without overheating in traffic.
Although there are regions within America that are attempting to address this central issue through strong community leadership, mainly in the areas of zoning and planning and real estate development, the suburbia problem is still increasing in most areas.
That's particularly important in potential new stores in big cities and upscale suburbia, where many customers place as much emphasis on wide aisles and clean bathrooms as they do on low prices.
The book takes in not just semi- detached suburbia but commuter towns, shopping villages, mobile-home parks and jerry-rigged coastal settlements.
Mr. WILLIAM BRIGHTON (Homeless): What they're doing is they're moving suburbia LA back downtown, and in a way it's unfair to a lot of homeless people who have become accustomed to calling downtown, the streets, their home, because they can't afford anything else.
Her encounters along the way clue us into her shared isolation: suburbia is a place where everyone spins in their sealed-up emotional orbits.
This change can be witnessed in places like Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas, said Leinberger, where once rundown downtowns are being revitalized by well-educated, young professionals who have no desire to live in a detached single family home typical of a suburbia where life is often centered around long commutes and cars.
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All reflect changes in the corporate mindset that spawned the campuses dotting outer suburbia.
In the Jinqiao neighborhood in eastern Shanghai lies a picture-perfect replica of American suburbia.
It's also in Al Anbar and will be in the areas around Baghdad, in the so-called belt around Baghdad, which is essentially the suburbia-type towns and cities that surround Baghdad north, east and south and certainly Al Anbar to the west.
In America, the famous aerial pictures of Long Island's Levittown in the 1950s, which showed identical, boxy houses marching across bare earth, helped fix a depressing image of suburbia.
Suburbia continued to expand when the Hampstead tube extended to Golders Green, then part of the countryside, in 1907 in a move to stimulate suburban development in accordance with an American model.
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