“...then as now, homeownership was regarded as a counterweight to the rootlessness of an urbanizing population.” (51) The rootlessness of urbanization has been extended now into the home. The ‘values’ proposed by the propagandist of homeownership have shown themselves as groundless. People are not happier, family life is not better, women have (rightly) cast off their stereotypical role, and the generations that know no other existence than suburban existence feel as rootless in their cul-de-sac as the city-dweller surely felt in his apartment. Nay, moreso, for the city at least shows signs of its history. In the suburb all decay is hidden, and everything is perpetually new.

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)