Definitions

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  • noun Sprawling suburbs, collectively.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings

Etymologies

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Blend of suburb and utopia

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Examples

  • (January 6, 2006 11: 50: 00 AM CST) funny, was just in the process of writing about this for subtopia. well, we'll share the wealth of this one. nice post.

    The Bleex, or: Intergalactic planetary landscape architect, Part II 2006

  • We pass through a subtopia of hangars, machine workshops, brick offices.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • We pass through a subtopia of hangars, machine workshops, brick offices.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • The battle over the stimulus package completely ignored the fact that after 30 years of deregulation and globalisation, the real economy, and its army of workers, have been hollowed out from within - Rudd's 12.7 billion in cash handouts will never be enough to breathe life back into the limp subtopia ringing the nation's capitals.

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

  • subtopia.blogspot.com: a field guide to military urbanism.

    Subtopia 2007

  • subtopia.blogspot.com: a field guide to military urbanism.

    Subtopia « Gerry Canavan 2007

  • In the 1950s, Nairn undertook a rage-fuelled road trip from Southampton to Carlisle, railing against what he called “subtopia”, the kind of mindless identikit sprawl that was taking over the country like “creeping mildew”.

    ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges Oliver Wainwright 2024

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  • "...cash handouts will never be enough to breathe life back into the limp subtopia ringing the nation's capitals."

    July 20, 2015

  • The critics deploring subtopia

    Are blinded by snobbish myopia.

    We're in happy thrall

    To movies and mall,

    To retailing's vast cornucopia.

    December 28, 2015