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Suburbia

December 2023

  • John Harris

    Through a delayed train’s window, I see how Britain’s ‘blue wall’ is crumbling - town by commuter town

    John Harris
    My unwanted rail odyssey began in London Waterloo, and ended up showing me how the Tories are failing their core voters, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

June 2023

  • Emma Beddington

    I moved from the city to the suburbs – and I can’t believe my luck

    Emma Beddington
  • Sonia Sodha

    Suburbia doesn’t have to steal your soul – just ask Barbara and Tom of The Good Life

    Sonia Sodha

February 2022

  • Who’s Afraid of Public Space. Dot McNamara worked in the newsagency all her life – as did her parents before her, until her death in 2012

    From noxious trades to boutique bars: the changing face of Melbourne’s inner north – in pictures

    The Northcote pictorial by David Wadelton explores the role of public space and the character and composition of public life

December 2021

  • Clare Chambers standing on a surburban street

    Self and wellbeing
    Most people flee the suburbs, but nowhere land is the perfect backdrop for my novels

    Suburbia is neither glamorous nor picturesque. But this is precisely what makes it rich terrain for my books

October 2021

  • ‘Giving historical weight to what might otherwise be snootily dismissed as suburban kitsch’ … an image from Lived in Architecture: Becontree at 100, Riba Gallery, London.

    ‘Some people think it’s a real mess’ – the wild, fantastical genius of Becontree

    From golden cement lions to crazy paving facades, from Corinthian columns to pebbledash galore, a new show is celebrating 100 years of gaudy, surreal additions to the London council estate

September 2021

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Johnson is reshuffling away from culture wars to firm up the commuter belt

    Gaby Hinsliff
    The prime minister has clearly not forgotten about the vulnerabilities in his coalition of voters, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

May 2021

  • ‘A sense of intimacy and belonging’ ... Miami, 2020.

    Teen spirit in suburbia: Lauren Tepfer’s evocative images – in pictures

    From portraits of friends in the pool to beautifully lit streets, the 21-year-old’s work captures the essence of being young in a small town

November 2020

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Hear the siren call of the suburbs

    Eva Wiseman
    Moving to the outskirts of town? Here are my five top tips. By Eva Wiseman

September 2019

  • Queensbury, a north London suburban housing estates, seen from the air, 1935.

    From the Guardian archive
    From slums to suburbs: the new housing estates – archive, 1930

    10 September 1930 Slum-dwellers maintain a higher standard of life once they become tenants on these estates, argues a doctor who spent a year living on one

May 2019

  • “Lady In Red”, Mt. Carmel, Penn., 2016

    Boom to bust: faded smalltown America – in pictures

  • Petrochemicals, it turned out, could be used to make everything, from lipstick and water bottles to processed food and cheap hamburgers, made with beef reared in concentrated feeding operations on corn partly made of synthetic fertilizers and weed killers.

    Toxic America
    From lipstick to burgers: how our lives have become so chemical dependent

    McKay Jenkins

January 2019

  • Tracey Thorn.

    Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’

    Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn on performing, her parents and her second memoir, Another Planet
  • Tracey Thorn outside the LSE, London, UK 14 May 1983

    Tracey Thorn: ‘We looked at suburbia and wanted to burn it down’ – extract

    In this extract from her second memoir, Tracey Thorn describes growing up in a dull commuter village in the 70s, her summer of disco – and the first stirrings of wanting to escape
  • Heidelberg Heights

    Whispers from the past: a search for beauty in Australia's suburbs – in pictures

    Photographer Warren Kirk describes his new book Suburbia as part-social history, part-archaeology, part-storytelling

August 2018

  • Paul Daley

    A death threat stuck on a piece of rubbish? That's too much even for the trash detectives

    Paul Daley
    Until I saw the note stapled to a rusty old drying rack, I had thought my neighbourhood was quite safe

June 2018

  • Hendon Hall Court

    Suburban masterpieces: modernism in London's edgelands – in pictures

    From Brent’s Rizla factory to the art deco clock tower of Wealdstone Motors in Harrow, Joshua Abbott has spent years documenting the architecture of north-west London’s ‘Metroland’ – and beyond – on his Modernism in Metroland website

May 2018

  • John Harris

    A warning to the Tories: Britain’s true-blue suburbs have turned liberal

    John Harris
    Our affluent areas are becoming more diverse and progressive. Theresa May’s monochrome retro-politics has little appeal for them, says Guardian columnist John Harris

April 2018

  • Joe’s Milk Bar on Arthurton Road in Northcote, Melbourne, has been closed for some years but has recently undergone some refurbishments. Abandoned milk bars are hotspots for graffiti and vandalism

    Australian cities week
    Suburbia gone sour: the melancholia of Melbourne's milk bars – in pictures

  • Acacia Gardens, North-West Sydney, Aerial Photography<br>Orange and grey roofs in Sydney's suburbs. This aerial photograph is from a series about Sydney's urban sprawl. The series features the creation of new suburbs, plus infrastructure like roads, parks and power lines. Urban sprawl in Sydney is a contentious issue with opinions divided on the need for the city to expand to house more people, compared to problems of spreading infrastructure and transport too thinly over an increasing area. Housing affordability in Sydney has also become a critical issue with people being unable to afford housing even on the edges of the city.

    Australian cities week
    Boomburbs: Sydney's urban sprawl seen from above – in pictures

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