In the City you walk. In the Suburb you drive. This is the most obvious but fundamental difference. This underlies the compactness and density of the City and the dispersion in Suburbia. (This duality may be neither inevitable nor cast in stone.)

Architecture must move to the suburbs. As they stand now architecture has absented itself in favor of real estate. The introduction of architecture in the suburbs will require its rethinking

Architecture must move because we move. Architectural appreciation is done while driving, suburban design must follow suit. We don’t have time to stop.

Architecture must move while standing still. Since architecture has until now been the epitome of stillness, and it will probably remain so for some time, no single piece of architecture will supply a complete picture. A kind of automatic editing will take place (while driving). Total architecture will be assemblage of these edited experiences. This totality will never be complete.

Architecture must move to find its pace. Architecture in the speedzone ( the band of space surrounding major arteries) is perceived at different speeds. For spatial effect, long buildings next to the freeway can be shorter by the feeder and quite short at the edge of the adjacent neighborhood

Architecture Must Move Us. Most (American) single-family houses look like images of houses of other countries and other times, but larger. To represent other houses than the house at hand relegates architecture to real estate. Architecture becomes the branding of a style. By turning to the sensational—to our senses—architecture can reclaim its materiality, singularity, atmosphere and presence.

Architecture must move into semi-focus. As architecture stands in the suburban landscape it is mere backdrop. When achieving materiality, character, atmosphere and specific presence architecture will step into the middlescape and like the smell of a bakery capture our imagination.

Architecture must move-in with the city it is part of. The character, the climate, the landscape and the vegetation of a city hold part of the secret to its architecture. Only by immersing itself in its particular environment can a city-specific architecture evolve.

Architecture must move the suburban metropolis out of its complacency into the luster of a new cultural expression. The current architectural wasteland has so many opportunities for renewal and innovation. So many opportunities to join force with everyday life, so many voids to fill; so many opportunities to give shape and vision.

Architecture must move artifice closer to nature and vice versa. It is only in the amalgamation of nature and culture that the suburbia of super-modernity will find its synthesis.

Architecture must move landscape into focus. The delegation of landscape to the picturesque, by abandoning bridges between inside and outside (such as screen porches in Southern climates) and reducing outdoor activity to the occasional barbecue has reduced gardening to just that. Landscape design is like suburban architecture mere decoration. By turning architecture towards the landscape new inbetweens can evolve. Gardening (in a city like Houston) around a couple of air-conditioned rooms and fanned porches can achieve new heights of sublimation.

Architecture must move on the hostility of heat and humidity. Current (air-conditioning) practice creates a binary environment—cold inside hot outside. Moderation of climatic conditions through architectural/mechanical inbetweens will bring pedestrians back and out. Coolsheds, in the South and Warmsheds in the North distributed throughout the suburban landscape as part of the fieldroom (the vast petting zoo that Ballard refers to) will allow bicyclists, runners and joggers relief and opportunities to meet and ameliorate the lack of park space.

Architecture must move with the returnees from the outer suburbs to create a variety of housing opportunities. The third and inevitable oil crisis will speed up and reinforce the return to all inner loops. The demand for increased density will put pressure on the fieldroom, only architectural invention can protect this precious resource. High-rise buildings and roof terraces must return. When all the Enrons are gone, "downtowns” will be Downtown again. Housing Plus: Housing, Work, and Commerce, as my old teacher Jaqueline Tyrwhitt used to say.

Architecture (of quality) must move away from its self-absorption to offer its gifts to the street, to the district, to the city. One city-feature per house will make a new city.

Architecture must move beyond the photographic towards the cinematic.