| Strong transport policy conclusions have been drawn from negative views of the current trends of suburbanisation. |
| Along with the evaluation of the changes in urban size and form, there are contrasting views on how urban transport policy should accommodate, contain or otherwise guide the processes of suburbanisation. |
| For much of the 20th century cities across the rich world lost population thanks to 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. |
| In the South, there is no longer the substantial rural-to-urban migration that we saw before: in the North we no longer have the major expansion of the suburbanisation trends of the seventies. |
