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is an escape from the grime of the industrial city with no central function, neither ruling, or making, but simply serving as a place where one could find space.

Gl From the earliest days of the Industrial City there was a strong desire by the few who could afford it to escape its smoke and grime and even more its unlovely landscape. So with the Industrial City came the suburb. With the reconstitution of a mercantile class and the appearance of the new managerial elite, the growth of the suburbs gained greatly in momentum. These settlements had no central function they did not rule, sell or make. They were places where people found space. Quoted in The Exploding Cities GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908 )

is an incubator of apathy and delirium (in contrast to the slums, which may indeed be breeding-grounds of crime).

Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Ibid. CONNOLLY, Cyril (1903-1974)

is in your head. It travels wherever you go.

The suburb is in your head, and travels wherever you go.Alan Powers

is nothing new, but from the time of the ancient city states of sumeria and GREECE, it has been the outer part of a continuously built-up city, not separated from it by intervening land.

Suburbs, the outer part of a continuously build-up city and not separated from it by intervening land, have been in existence for thousands of years. Such regions were to be found about the ancient city-states of Sumeria and Greece and about Imperial Rome. Medieval Florence and Venice spawned suburbs as did London by the sixteenth century. Cities and Suburbs in Europe and the United States COPPA, Frank J. (1937 )

is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the 'bankers' hours' of the masses.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the 'bankers' hours' of the masses. David Riesman

is a dangerously provisional collective hallucination, nourished by a sado-masochistic idiot pop culture.

Suburbia is a dangerously provisional collective hallucination, nourished by a sado-masochistic idiot pop culture.James Howard Kunstler

is a fiscal funkhole. The metropolitan community has been organized with escape hatches that allow people to enjoy the proximity of the city while not paying their share of taxes. A person can avoid income tax by moving to new jersey or connecticut.

G4 The remarkable thing is not that [New York's] government costs so much, but that so many people of wealth have left. It's outrageous that the development of the metropolitan community has been organized with escape hatches that allow people to enjoy the proximity of the city while not paying their share of taxes. It's outrageous that a person can avoid income tax by moving to New Jersey or Connecticut. Fiscal funkholes are what the suburbs are. The New York Times, July 30, 1975 GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908 )

is a happy answer to the controversy over the advantages of the country (with its charm and health) and the city (with its conveniences).

G125 The controversy which is sometimes brought, as to which offers the greater advantage, the country or the city, finds a happy answer in the suburban idea which says, both the combination of the two the city brought to the country. The city has its advantages and conveniences, the country has its charm and health... the union of the two (a modern result of the railway), gives to man all he could ask in this respect. The Urbanization ol the Suburbs GREER, Scott (1922 )

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