This book invites readers to act as 'flies on the wall' during the meeting of four town planners. Its intention is to make us rethink everything we think we know about suburbs.

The planners are fictional, the concepts based on academic research, and the arguments substantiated by large amounts of data presented as visually stunning maps and data visualisations. The book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of suburbanisms as particular ways of living, demonstrating that aspects of this lifestyle occur simultaneously in urban and suburban places. The approach suggests that policy solutions to suburban sprawl need to move beyond treating suburbs as homogeneous places in need of urbanisation.