The urban, metropolitan area is now connected like a spider web. Decisions are being made in suburban corporate towers that affect the city. Decisions are being made in the Loop's skyscrapers that affect the world. Suburbs have worse traffic jams than many inner city streets. Homeless people wander the streets of all our communities.
Gangs live in the inner city and first ring suburbs.
One is not apart from the other. One depends on the other. And if one part of the body suffers, then we all suffer. Whether we like it or not the United States is urban. We cannot escape it.