This paper compares and contrasts suburban and urban residents’ attitudes and behavior toward development by comparing the frequency and motivation for mobilization of residents in the suburbs of Surrey, British Columbia, and Brampton, Ontario, with residents of their respective metropolitan urban cores. It finds that suburban residents engage less in planning politics than their urban counterparts and that they are more likely to oppose development than urban residents. However, while some variation exists in the concerns suburban and urban residents raise when they express their opposition to development, overall, the concerns of residents in suburbs and urban cores are largely the same. The data suggest that what differences exist between suburban and urban residents in the politics of urban development and planning likely arise due to the varying nature and prevalence of development encroaching on existing neighborhoods, rather than from underlying cultural differences.

本文通过比较不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里市和安大略省宾顿市郊区居民与各自大都市核心区居民的动员频率和动机，比较并对比了郊区和城市居民对发展的态度和行为。它发现郊区居民比城市居民更少参​​与规划政治，他们比城市居民更有可能反对发展。然而，虽然郊区和城市居民在表达反对发展时提出的担忧存在一些差异，但总体而言，郊区和城市核心居民的担忧基本相同。