To be honest, the war between the city and the suburbs was won even before the crash of 2008. As the journalist Leigh Gallagher points out in her sober book The End of the Suburbs, by 2011, the economic and demographic shift that really began in the mid 90s finally reached a historic mark: overall, cities were growing faster than the suburbs for the first time in 100 years. The decline of the suburbs has also and naturally meant the political and cultural decline of its codes and modes. The cultural transformation of the city (which is really a return to the best aspects of the 19th century city) and the spread of its codes and modes now seems inevitable...