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I would read that as the entire settlement. Same way as replacing "suburbs" with "cities" would also include commerical and utility.
If americans don't consider commerical areas part of suburbs, where do you go to buy stuff?
Suburb is specifically residential. You might have a pharmacy here or there but by and large it's residences. Thats the definition of suburb. The commercial area at the edge of suburbs you go to get groceries and clothes is exactly that, a commercial district.
That makes it sound like suburbia is a large patchwork of "suburb" and "edge of the suburbs". Definitely not how I would understand it as a european.
Regardless of what OP meant, I would personally care about the overall density of all places people commonly need to get to or through, compared for us and european suburbia.
So counting houses, roads, regulatorilly demanded greenspace padding, sidewalks, shops, recreation, utilities. Maybe even parks.