"In a well-known passage Marx powerfully urges us to do the impossible, namely, to think this development positively and negatively all at once; to achieve, in other words, a type of thinking that would be capable of grasping the demonstrably baleful features of capitalism along with its extraordinary and liberating dynamism simultaneously within a single thought, and without attenuating any of the force of either judgement." (47) It must be part of this project to resurrect the dynamism of the suburb, to see in it a force for movement, for lightning-strike realizations. The opposite view is the easy one, and apologies for the suburb thus far have come from those who would see it as unchanging and continuous, who would deny its revolutionary potential as part of their praise.

(Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. Print.)