exurb

Blend of extra +‎ urban.

exurb (plural exurbs)

1. A residential area beyond the suburbs.
   • 2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic‎:

     I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.

   • 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91:

     Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.

   • 2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, “China's Hinge”, in National Geographic‎:

     Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.

• exurbia

• exurban

• urbex