Architecture Quote by Robyn Bachar

I'm from Naperville.

— James Holzhauer

“Farmville is still the quiet community where I spent long summer afternoons floating in my parents' pool. On the surface, it is a perfectly…

— Kristen Green

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“I hope we don’t get in no more Hoovervilles,’’ said”

— John Steinbeck

“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

— John Kennedy Toole

“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

— J.D. Vance

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

— Malcolm Jenkins

“Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with.”

— Angela Johnson

“I want a house that costs somewhere in the neighborhood of any other neighborhood but the one I’m currently living in.”

— Jarod Kintz

“So that Chicago, with shipping and steel and livestock, came to think of itself as a burly city, tough and muscular, with rough-and-tumble football…

— Brian Doyle

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the…

— Rumaan Alam

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