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Look at any mature first-ring suburb from the 1920s and you realize the industries that made them possible: oil, telecommunications, agriculture, steel...Now we have the prospect of Internet, which can make suburbia for the 21st century, with streets of 3D-printed houses, or other structures that use the computer metaphor. In the 30s it was Deco and the Zephyr, the 50s rockets and space travel, now it's generative design with algorithms, sometimes redounding to more natural forms--or ironic kitsch. Has anyone yet made the Utah Teapot cafe as the corollary of The Big Duck (or its Freudian Slip?). The 20s suburbs had nothing to do with kitsch because they weren't projections of bathetic industries.