I start with the view that a suburban town is a community and not just type of architecture. People/families live their lives in these towns. So, as a community, it’s ability to survive/thrive is a function of its adaptability. If the future is going to be as tough as we think it is, then the question of suburbia really becomes: are suburban communities adaptable enough to thrive in the future (as in: becoming resilient communities). Given the advantages of the suburban landscape (land, surface area, security, etc.) has over rural/urban in many revival scenarios (post crunch), the only existential threat to these communities appears to be the from the global financial system — aka a foreclosure tsunami that decimates communities faster than they can reconfigure/change. I think that problem is solvable.