The Changing Imagery of American City and Suburb

The images of city and suburb were once polar images, but as both are merged in a sprawling urban agglomeration they lose their distinctive character. Difficulties of ecological, political and economic integration have afflicted our major cities with the disease of “suburbanitis”and now the rise of “exurbia'’(the unorganized fringe area beyond the suburbs) produces a new set of questions and problems.—Editor