“The suburbs of our mind are the dormitory suburbs of detached single-family homes in which the mother is a homemaker caring for young children and the father the breadwinner who commutes to his job in the city. This is the suburbia of the sitcoms in rerun. It never really reflected the diverse reality of the suburbs of the past; it certainly is misleading as a contemporary image.” (3)

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