Side effects Quote by Sloane Crosley

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

“Growing up ruins everything”

— Betty Smith

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids…

— Meg Rosoff

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

— Prodigy

[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

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

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

— Ayanna Pressley

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

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

— J.D. Vance

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

— Alia Shawkat

“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

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change…

— Li Keqiang