The Outer City: U.S. In Suburban Turmoil
NY Times series exploring growth, complexities and attitudes of suburban Amer; 1st article discusses development of suburbs into outer cities, often surpassing inner cities that spawned them in population, jobs, investment, construction, stores and pol power; from outer city's development is seen springing most serious implications for quality of urban life; in '40, suburbs contained 27-million people, 2 of every 10 Amers and 19-million fewer than cities; now they contain 76-million, 4 of every 10 Amers and 12-million more than cities; suburbs found to be individual, diverse communities with diversity of problems; taken together, they have become informally federated in many areas; residents use suburbs collectively as centerless city; independence and indifference of outer city residents to inner cities noted; ways in which outer cities have grown detailed; graph shows suburban-central city population, '20 through '70; illus of examples of outer cities
