Suburb

=== United Kingdom ===
In the United Kingdom suburbs are located between the exurbs and inner cities of a [[metropolitan area]]. The growth in the use of trains, and later cars and highways, increased the ease with which workers could have a job in the city while [[commuting]] in from the suburbs. In the United Kingdom, as mentioned above, railways stimulated the first mass exodus to the suburbs. The Metropolitan Railway, for example, was active in building and promoting its own housing estates in the north-west of London, consisting mostly of detached houses on large plots, which it then marketed as "Metro-land".<ref>[http://www.transportdiversions.com/publicationshow.asp?pubid=5800 London's metroland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016074321/http://transportdiversions.com/publicationshow.asp?pubid=5800 |date=16 October 2007 }}. Transportdiversions.com. Retrieved on 22 November 2011.</ref> In the UK, the government is seeking to impose minimum densities on newly approved housing schemes in parts of [[South East England]]. The goal is to "build sustainable communities" rather than housing estates. However, commercial concerns tend to delay the opening of services until a large number of residents have occupied the new neighborhood.