“The suddenly in the 1950s, urban-based intellectuals discovered the suburbs. And what they discovered, to their horror, was an aesthetic and social wasteland filled with tract housing, station wagons, and organization men....Suburbia was equated with the emergence of a popular mass culture dominated by the mass media. The blandness of popular tastes was blamed on the suburbs. They became a scapegoat for all that the cosmopolitan critics disliked about modern life.” (77)

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