Lewis Mumford: “While the suburb served only a favored minority, it neither spoiled the countryside nor threatened the city. But now that the drift to the outer ring has become a mass movement, it tends to destroy both environments without producing anything but a dreary substitute, devoid of form and even more devoid of the original suburban values...a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, in uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricatred food, from the same freezer, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold manufactured in the central metropolis.” (Lewis Mumford, The City in History, 1961. Quoted in Palen, The Suburbs, 1994, p. 77)

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