The Proliferation of Suburban Enclaves Cosplaying as Cities

“Entire projects and neighborhoods are being built on the premise that suburbs can design and offer their own calibrated slices of urbanity.”
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s December/January 2008 issue.

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John King
John King last wrote for Dwell on suburban urbanism, a far cry Hugh Ferriss’s world of sky-scraping charcoal forms.

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