“The suburb as a residential place, as the site of scattered dwellings and businesses outside city walls, is as old as civilization...However, suburbanization as a process involving the systematic growth of fringe areas at a pace more rapid than that of core cities...occurred first in the United States and Great Britain, where it can be dated from about 1815.” (13)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)