Introduction

Suburbia has built its vision of community on the primacy of private property and the individual family. It has evolved into today is, technoburbia, a dominant new urban reality that can no longer be considered suburbia in the traditional sense. Robert Fishman, a history professor, has coined two new terms, technoburb and techno-city. He says technoburbs as peripheral zones, perhaps as large as a county, that have emerged as viable socioeconomic units. The new technoburbs are spread out along highway growth corridors. By techno-city Fishman means the whole metropolitan region that has been transformed by the coming of the technoburb. If the nineteenth century could be called the Age of Great Cities, post-1945 America would appear to be the Age of Great Suburbs. Suburbia has served as a specialized portion of the expanding metropolis. The great American postwar housing boom was perhaps the purest example of the suburban dream in action.