The suburb became, under Henry's hands, like a vacant lot in Hollywood - full of cardboard houses under an artificial sky.

New York City and its suburbs have become a hotbed for minor league baseball, saturating the region with more clubs any other part of the country.

The suburbs have become more diverse.

"I had a restaurant in Hackensack briefly in 1975, but today the suburbs are becoming much stronger."

This was a time when, as Mr. Freedman points out, the suburbs were becoming browner and poorer.

Chaddesden soon became the largest suburb of Derby.

In the past 30 years, the suburb has become more urbanised as property developments take place, with the resulting loss of surrounding bushland.

Pacific Pines was originally part of Gaven, Queensland; but became a separate suburb in 2003.

Generally the suburbs are becoming more liberal on the state and county levels.

A long string of elections for county offices, legislative seats and other posts shows the suburbs becoming more fertile terrain for Democrats.