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Originally Posted by nito
but urban areas take many forms and there is no singular form.
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Ditto for "suburban areas".
As a major metro area with substantial amounts of both pre-war and post-war suburbia, Chicagoland aptly demonstrates that fact.
Traditional "railroad suburb" town centers from the late 19th/early 20th, strung like pearls along the various Metra commuter rail lines radiating out into the hinterlands in all directions, with all of the interspersed leftover space then back-filled during the post-war period with new expressways and all of the usual unrelentingly auto-centric sprawl-burban garbage that defines the era.
Spend an afternoon exploring suburban Chicago via a metra line, then spend another doing the same via an expressway corridor 5 miles over, and you'll swear you just visited two different places. In a way, you kinda did, or at least two different time periods.