“...the suburb as the product of a happy marriage between town and country, a union to resolve one of the most troublesome paradoxes of American civilization. / The paradox is, of course, the continuing worship of rural, countrified life in a nation where the pull of progress has created an unmistakably urban civilization.” (24)

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)