Sorry for bumping this thread 3 months after
I'll talk about Spain. Most of the people think that we live in dense cities... and they're quite right. But there are also lots of low-density suburbs all over the country, called
urbanización (plural
urbanizaciones). Basically, there are 3 types of low-density suburbs according to its age:
1) Those built in the early 20th century. They were a sort of urbanism experiment, including some garden cities (brought by the British working in the mines of Bilbao and Huelva). Most of them are made up of houses built in a traditional architecture.
2) Those built during the Francoism. They were mainly built for the elites and consist on scattered houses with lots of tall trees and hedges so that you cannot see anything. Some of them don't even have sidewalks. The streets are named after trees, flowers, birds or countries
3) Those built in the last three decades. Most of them consist on detached and semi-detached "clone" houses very close to eachother. They are better urbanized though (no aerial cables, more parks, etc).
Some examples:
This is Ciudad Jardín, in Madrid. When it was built this place was the outskirts, now it's the centre. Some houses have been demolished to build new taller buildings.
L'Eliana, in Valencia.
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona. Barcelona is surrounded by hundreds of
urbanizaciones that spread along the coastline and the mountains.
The west of Madrid is filled with these
urbanizaciones. Some of them are quite expensive, some of them aren't.
^What I said. You only can see trees and hedges.
This is not a suburb, this is just an
urbanización built in the middle of nowhere for the people to spend the weekends/holidays in.
Same here. Surprisingly, they are not only located in the Mediterranean coast but actually everywhere, especially near the mountains.
Some newer
urbanizaciones, built in the 90's. Clone houses.
Maybe the garage is too small?
And finally, this one was built in the 2000's: