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subtopia|sʌbˈtəʊpɪə|
Also Subtopia.
[Blend of suburb and Utopia: cf. Suburbia.]
A disparaging term for: Suburbia regarded as an ideal place. Applied more generally to areas of undifferentiated, ill-planned, and ugly suburban development; unsightly suburbs which encroach on the countryside.
1955I. Nairn in Archit. Rev. CXVII. 365 There will be no real distinction between town and country. Both will consist of a limbo of shacks, bogus rusticities, wire and aerodromes, set in some fir-poled fields... Upon this new Britain the Review bestows a name in the hope that it will stick—Subtopia. 1960Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. 277, I loathe crooners and swooners,..neon and subtopia. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 iv. 102 The descent from Utopia to Sub-topia is steep and short. 1971Country Life 2 Sept. 566/1 Will there still be English villages as we know them, or will they have merged into an unending subtopia in which town and country have become indistinguishable? 1976W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls vii. 123 The killer was a man of the suburbs..at home in a neatly patterned subtopia. |