“Since outer suburban land was less valuable, lot sizes could increase, and single-family homes on large lots became economically more viable. Thus resulted in a pattern where the most valuable homes adn the wealthiest residents lived on the urban fringe. Or, to state it another way, there was a tendency for an inverse relationship between the value of land and the economic status of those occupying it. The more affluent lived on the cheaper outer land.” (17)

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