Names Quote by Bill Vaughan

Suburbia: where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them

— Anonymous

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

— Bill Vaughan

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of…

— James Howard Kunstler

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town,…

— James Howard Kunstler

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic…

— James Howard Kunstler

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

— James Howard Kunstler

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

— Bob Goodlatte

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

— James Howard Kunstler

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

— Mason Cooley

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown…

— Hari Kunzru

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

— H. L. Mencken

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

— James Howard Kunstler