A one-class community, located at the edge of the city, with low rates of housing per hectare. ‘Suburbs were originally characterised by housing types not entirely different from those found closer to the urban core, but the “garden suburb” tradition came to dominate Western cities during the twentieth century…Individual suburbs became more regulated, more “planned” and more middle class. The widespread adoption of the garden suburb model transformed streetscape into landscape’ (Sharpe (2005) Canad. Geogr./Géog. canad. 49, 4). Suburb-making in the USA is ‘the most geographically extensive version of suburbanization’ (Martin (2007) Area 39, 1). Rudel et al. (2011) AAAG 101, 3 observe that ‘more recently, suburbs have adopted land use controls that promote upper class sprawl by reserving large areas for the construction of small numbers of expensive homes on spacious lots. This regulatory shift can be explained in several ways: a home voter hypothesis that derives the new controls from the economic interests of suburban homeowners, and a regional spillover hypothesis that attributes the adoption of new controls to desires by planning commissioners, consultants, and nongovernmental organizations to do as other communities are doing’. Peach (2000) PHG 24, 4 reports on immigrants in ‘leafy suburbs’: ‘instead of the traditional central concentration of the first generation, the new pattern achieves instant suburbanization but remains fairly segregated.’