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“We drive northwest for an hour to Michigan. Michigan is pretty much like rural New Jersey, except it's flattened out and well planned and…

— Wendy Wunder

“The issue is not just that land developers have unbalanced the ecology and made much of the geography ugly. What strikes so painfully is,…

— Robert Adams

“Although it has become the most visible of American suburban landscapes, the edge node has few architectural defenders. Even developers despair: 'Shopping centers built…

— Dolores Hayden

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide…

— Charles Kuralt

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing,…

— John Prescott

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

Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.…

— Kim Harrison

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards…

— Richard Lamm

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing…

— Amber Rudd

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

— Anonymous

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

— Steve Martin