“...the distribution of the population was governed primarily by the desire of property owners...to enhance their investments by attracting the wealthy and by excluding the poor.” (22) Where property once represented wealth for the elite, it begins to be translated into fungible wealth as the elite sell it off in sections to the bourgeoisie. “Come, you too can have a piece (quite literally) of this good life.”

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