I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
Source: wiktionary
Exurb
//ˈɛɡˌzɜːb//
Synonyms for "exurb" (30 found)
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Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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