“The single-family tract house--post-World War II style--whatever its aesthetic failings, offered growing families a private haven in a heartless world. [Even] If the dream did not include minorities or the elderly, [or] if it was accompanied by the isolation of nuclear families, by the decline of public transportation, and by the deterioration of urban neighborhoods...” (245) The creation of a private haven gave rise to many new “dangers” or “fears” from which it was then additionally necessary to find private haven. Thus suburbanization is a self-fulfilling prophecy, a causal loop of decentering and inversion.

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