“This point that the little boxes and the people who live in them are all the same was a core belief of the city-based intellectual critics of suburbs. It was a given that suburbs bred conformity. Ironically, the children born in the little boxes would spawn the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was the children of the suburbs who celebrated at Woodstock.” (78) More than discounting the premise put forward by the “city-based” intellectuals, doesn’t it seem to confirm it that the natural rebellion of adolescence in the 1960s took the form of an ostensible rejection of an entire way of life. That most of the hippies were eventually “reincorporated”, even now owning little boxes of their own, does not work to downplay the power of their original opposition to it.

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