Faced with the growing disarticulation of metropolitan areas the conventional design tools have long pointed out their inefficiency, especially where they presuppose a unifying control of facts that actually base their raison d'être on important elements of uncertainty and unpredictability.
The suburbia are one of the areas in which the crisis of architectural thought shows deeper, but also where the close contact with the multiple demands coming from the conditions of the contemporary world opens up a wide field of possibilities to experiment with new techniques of intervention wishing to compete with the big scale.