👉 Suburbanizing is a process where an area or region becomes more urbanized, characterized by increased population density and development. It often refers to the process of expanding urban areas into rural settings, with some form of "suburbanization" being used metaphorically to denote this shift. The term was first coined in the 1960s by sociologist Richard B. J. Fodor, who argued that suburbanizing is a common feature of contemporary urban development and has been observed in many