To the Viennese reformers of the time, the quality of civic life was a function of the quality of the built environment, and Gruen thought that principle applied just as clearly to the American suburbs.

• 对于其时的改革者而言，城市生活质量应该是建筑环境质量中的一部分，格鲁恩原以为美国郊区也准能适用这一原则。