Another question - how do we differentiate between suburbs?

I grew up near Kent, WA in a suburban area as described in the article (windy non-grid roads, houses with 2 or 3 car garages, no bus service except a single commute bus at a park and ride accessible only by car or walking on the shoulder)

Now i live North of Seattle in an area with single family homes, grid streets, public facilities, busses, bike trails. You know the... Suburbs

These two places are nothing alike to live in. They need different names...

Fwiw the article only spoke of tearing down the former to me, though with an overloaded term who knows for certain

To a first approximation, if you are living in an area where most people live in separate single-family homes, but you are not surrounded by fields or orchards, you are living in a suburb.

If you are surrounded by fields, you're in a rural environment. If people around you live in multi-family structures, you are in an urban environment.

I'm sure there are more formal definitions, too.