KINDS OF COMPOSITION. Linguistics, logic, and cognitive psychology have focused on understanding the nature of relationships. One important type of relationship is the association between the parts of things and the wholes they make up.
It could be in the Midwest, or along the Eastern Seaboard, or even a town in Canada, Mexico, or England.. GIPHY. The Riverdale of Archie comics is an idealized, all-American town that's meant to stand in for any number of real places instead of representing any particular place. The CW's Riverdale looks like it's planning to take that idealized location and explore its darker side, which should make for an interesting story.
As for Riverdale's location, that's a difficult one to pin down. In a 1942 issue of Jackpot Comics, the Archie crew were shown visiting Bear Mountain in New York on a trip, but that's no guarantee their hometown is located on the East Coast.