“Generally, writers of the [1920s] agreed in their viewing small-town and small-city values as fostering dull conformity and repression of creativity. Only in the large metropolitan areas could one be truly free. Not until the suburban housing boom following World War II were the charges that early-twentieth-century writers had leveled against the small towns and small cities redirected at suburbia and suburban life-styles.” (75)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)