Suburb

===Early history===
The earliest appearance of suburbs coincided with the spread of the first urban settlements. Large walled towns tended to be the focus around which smaller villages grew up in a symbiotic relationship with the [[market town]]. The word ''suburbani'' was first employed by the [[Rome|Roman]] statesman [[Cicero]] in reference to the large villas and estates built by the wealthy patricians of Rome on the city's outskirts.

Towards the end of the [[Eastern Han Dynasty]], until 190 AD, when [[Dong Zhuo]] razed the city, the capital [[Luoyang]] was mainly occupied by the emperor and important officials; the city's people mostly lived in small cities right outside Luoyang, which were suburbs in all but name.<ref>{{cite web|title=Luoyang and the Northern Army|url=http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23989|website=Scholars of Shen Zhou}}</ref>

As populations grew during the [[Early Modern Period]] in Europe, towns swelled with a steady influx of people from the [[countryside]]. In some places, nearby settlements were swallowed up as the main city expanded. The peripheral areas on the outskirts of the city were generally inhabited by the very poorest.<ref name="infoplease">{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/suburb-history-suburbs.html#ixzz2IqMC5s34|title=History of Suburbs|access-date=17 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320105249/https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/arts/visual/architecture/suburb/history-of-suburbs#ixzz2IqMC5s34|archive-date=20 March 2020|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>