"The second reason these hastily put up crackerboxes may be useful is this: If they were built in a hurry, they also can come down in a hurry. Certainly, they can be wrecked far more easily than the brownstones or Tudor mansions of a century or half-century ago, and in a culture whose only certain direction is change, this is a valuable quality..../ Rapid obsolescence is a way of life in America, and so is frequent change of residence..../ The best policy when contemplating the inevitably changing future is a policy of flexibility, and the simple suburban box, easy to build, easy to tear down, provides this flexibility." (87-89) How different this assessment (written in 1969) than one that any thinking person would make today. Flexibility now might be seen as a quality of a building's existence, rather than a quality of it's eventual destruction. This sort of 'build for today' mentality is what creates the suburban wasteland, the place without a history.