2024-11-21T11:50:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/101180316/screen-print-18-new-suburbanisms-by-judith-k-de-jong Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-06-09T10:16:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/i9/i99mwcrc7wkzh6bd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The American suburbs no longer exist as physically and conceptually peripheral to the downtown, the central consciousness of urban development. According to <a href="http://www.arch.uic.edu/faculty/dejong.php" target="_blank">Judith K. De Jong</a>&rsquo;s new book,&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-SubUrbanisms-Judith-De-Jong/dp/0415642175" target="_blank">New SubUrbanisms</a>, </em>the suburbs'&nbsp;mainstream designation as places of seclusion, domesticity, superficiality, and safety (set in comparison to their accompanying denser urban downtowns), has collapsed in the wake of a feedback loop between central city and suburbia.</p>