Causes Quote by James Howard Kunstler

“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

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

— Richard Rogers

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering…

— Noam Chomsky

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in…

— Bjarke Ingels

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

“Jobs and commerce have moved to edge nodes, but few people want to live in them. The presence of housing in edge nodes is…

— Dolores Hayden

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

— Aaron Rose

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild,…

— Karen Allen

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the…

— Megan Abbott

[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

“Our difficulty is no longer how to contain people densely in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of disease, bad sanitation and child labor.…

— Jane Jacobs