burbclave

• author:
  Neal Stephenson

• quotation:
  Burbclave- suburb described as "...computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves [talking about people] in symmetricalsheetrock shitholes with viynl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture."

• publication:
  Neal Stephenson Snow Crash Bantam Books, New York 1992.

• definition:
  Burb + (en)clave.A self-contained and like-minded community, usually catering to a specific class or race. 'Claves have their own restrictions on entry'.

  related words:
  burbs (the) (definition)
  enclave (definition)
  

  • echo:
    Now a Burbclave, that's the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything.

• hard cover:
  Neal Stephenson Snow Crash Bantam Books, New York 1992.

• publisher:
  Bantam Books

• site of publication:
  New York

• year of publication:
  1992