Architecture, in only partial definition, is inclusive and beyond the notice of pattern. Patterns exists for all who see them. Patterns are sequences found from the scale of the city, to the scale of the room. They are waves of information and research, just as they are aesthetic elements. 

However, through the iconic decades of the twentieth century, transcending beyond into the current twenty-first century, patterns are categorized throughout the decades as trends. As once said by renowned architectural critic, Ada Louise Huxtable…

Such trends throughout culture, and furthermore throughout architecture, have risen and fallen to the depths of suburbia and back. There is a selfishness behind each time in which we live, and even more so in the world we design. We design solely for ourselves, and the time in which we are placed. We as people drove cars endless miles throughout suburbia with the enticement of those white picket fences and sprawled acreage. We as architects designed programmed zones, like cities for the Mad Men to work in downtown, and drive all the way home. We as a people had abandoned our roots of walkability to what was the General Store, and the corner shop. We replaced the walk with the machine, and now through our own selfishness and sensational trends, we are yet again at the extremes, 

but now for cities that have no end. Between the odds of endless, generic suburbs, built on extinct values, and the current micro apartment units and communal spaces of hyper-urbanization, one question is sought to be answered, where is the Middle Ground…?

While we rapidly transition between the extremes of living, and the spaces in which we do so, what happens to the ones we left behind? With such a supposed environmental reasoning behind urbansim, what happens to all the existing infrastructure left behind in suburbia. With all the miles that suburbia and fringes of each city spread across for miles every direction, the solution to the human need of urbanism, of walking, and of an active life, is to retrofit.