1.  What are edge cities, and do they represent a new form of suburbia?

2.  What is the non-western manifestation of suburbia in the rest of the world?   Have other countries, as they develop, recreated US/European-style suburbs or instead created something new?

3.  What is the significance of Levittown in the history and symbolism of suburbia?

4.  How will telecommuting/teleworking change the location and structure of suburbia?

5.  What has been the impact of the huge increase in women entering the labor force on the morphology of suburbs?

6.  What is the link between suburbia, public school funding and racial segregation in the US?

7.  If the traditional suburb was defined based on its relationship to the central city, what happens to the suburbs when the central city itself transforms/collapses/suburbanizes?

8.  Is "New Urbanism" a style for cities or suburbs?

9.  Is the frequent disdain of suburbia by planners an intellectually honest one?  Is it based more on environmental, cultural, class or equity beliefs?

10.  What is the symbolic/iconic role of  "suburb" in urbanism?  What larger set of meaning does the term imply?

11.  How will suburban housing transform to keep up with the changing American family?  (see Hayden's book on this one)

12.  How do laws and planning regulations either reinforce or promote the development of suburbia?

13.  Why have Americans embraced the suburban form of living more that apparently any other society?  Is the answer cultural, economic, geographic, technological?