Exurb

I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.

Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.

Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.