... from cities to suburbs). Such terms as "outer city" (Jack Rosenthal), "new city" (Louis Masotti), and "satellite sprawl" (Anthony Downs) were applied to newly-urbanized suburbs. A significant fraction of those earlier works about life in suburban United States engaged in "bashing the `burbs" and viewed traditional cities as the leading centers of civilization and of cultural vitality. More recently, there has emerged a tradition of scholarly research characterized by a more open- minded evaluation of the structures and ways of life in suburbs, in which a multicentered approach has supplanted the core-periphery model. Writers within this tradition have discovered economic, social, and cultural dynamism in what was formerly viewed as the sleepy suburban hinterland. They have also coined some new terms to characterize these places, including "technoburbs" (Robert Fishman), "urban villages" (Kenneth Jackson), "middle landscape" (Peter Rowe), and "edge cities" (Joel Garreau). Despite their common focus on suburbs, most of ...

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