> Across the nation, hundreds of suburban shopping malls are dead or dying; countless suburban factories, like their urban counterparts a couple of generations

> Across the nation, hundreds of suburban shopping malls are dead or dying; countless suburban factories, like their urban counterparts a couple of generations ago, have fallen silent. OK, but those are not specific to suburbs, are they? Shopping malls are kind of a trend that fell out of fashion, and it was partially replaced by internet sales and other forms of brick and mortar shopping. Factories have gone overseas, but I don't see how that's related to suburbia. Certainly the suburban area I grew up in in the 70s and 80s never really had factories in the first place.