| A paradigm shift was intended to bring about a new, constructive approach to planning the areas destined for suburbanisation. |
| For much of the 20th century cities across the rich world lost population thanks to suburbanisation. |
| In towns and cities, there is increased migration from the centre to the suburbs accompanied by the suburbanisation of economic activity. |
| In general there are relatively many rural areas, next to mixed urban-rural areas where boundaries between cities and rural areas faded because of suburbanisation. |
| The trends towards suburbanisation and urban sprawl lead to low-density, spatially segregated land use. |
| The process of suburbanisation likewise had little impact on the south of Kortrijk, with the exception of the subdivisions that already have been mentioned earlier. |
