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E) Residential areas and suburbia
mainstream America

The fourth area is the residential area of the American born middle class. It is possibly the most representative example of what mainstream America is. It is usually a place where you find individual family homes, houses made of wood, usually two floored buildings, with a huge garage for two cars, a lawn, and a wide sidewalk in front, shadowed by big trees. The people who live in the fourth area are American born, usually white.
The well off in suburbia

The fifth area includes all the suburbs around the large central city. It is the place were the well-off live. Private homes can look like small mansions or even small palaces. Usually in the woods or in pleasant semi-rural surroundings, the homes you find there are surrounded by beautiful lawns dotted with swimming-pools.
Urban sprawl

At some point between the city limits and plain countryside it is difficult to tell where a city actually ends. This is typical of urban sprawl, a situation which can be defined as building houses in the country but not too far from cities. Environmentally speaking, this type of development is highly objectionalble.


Sprawl is a pattern of growth involving low-density development in the suburbs, beyond the edges of existing towns and cities. Residential areas in sprawl-type development are typically low-density, geographically separated from retail stores and offices, and heavily automobile-dependent. Because of this reliance on the automobile, the sprawl landscape is dominated by a vast network of roads and parking lots. (source: Google