IMAGES OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS

His personal research on young people and the suburbs has led the auth or to see the latter as a place for renewing the urban question in thr ee ways: as a new facet of the social question, as a space of public p olicy modifications, and as a place of sociability. To avoid oversimpl ification with respect to this last point, he proposes an interpretati on organized around four types of sociability, which show that the wor ld of the suburbs cannot be reduced to ghettos, nor to communities, no r to economic and social dependency. The suburbs is a place with the b asic dimensions of a fragile, heterogeneous folk culture.