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Jameson (in Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. Print. pp. 38-40) discusses a new type of postmodern space. In the Bonaventure Hotel he notes the quality of the entrances as "rather backdoor affairs," and suggests that it is in the logic of this new "hyperspace" that it "aspires to being a total space, a complete world." This building "does not wish to be a part of the city but rather its equivalent and replacement or substitute." This is a description that could equally apply to the suburb. As hyperspace, the suburb does not advertise its beginning and its ending, but consumes its own borders. In the roads, grids are abandoned for meandering lanes and cul-de-sacs. A sense of 'lostness' is inscribed on anyone who happens into an unfamiliar suburb, but it is a lostness coupled with the vague familiarity of having been here before.