Americans are historically a mobile people. Space defines them; as the storied vastness was consumed by their transit, transformed from a real frontier to an abstract framework [⇒ iFrames], mobility hardened into cityscapes and highway systems.
But the perfected dimension of American mobility, the remainder and memory of the Pioneer’s original experience of space, is the frozen muzak of the suburb. This sprawling landscape represents America’s efforts to invent its own ideal geography. The grids and cul-de-sacs map out a carefully engineered, artificial landscape that harbors, in the tug-o-war between individualism and conformity, the genetic material of the national character.
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Jones, W. (2002). Loose modularity, lumpy logic. (First published in Praxis 3). Retrieved December 3, 2018 from page 
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