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“Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see.”

Society Suburbanization

Book:The Lottery and Other Stories

Source: The Lottery and Other Stories

“...the Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today's number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing, or destructive mining practices. It is something more insidious. Well-meaning people, many of them former visitors who were seduced into moving to the glorious region, are loving it to death.”

Environment Tourism Suburbanization Resource Extraction

Book:Journey to the Northern Rockies

Source: Journey to the Northern Rockies

“The treadmill is a corollary to the suburb and the autotropolis: a device with which to go nowhere in places where there is nowhere to go.”

Exercise Suburbs Treadmills Suburbanization

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”

Certain Cities Collections Suburbs Great Cities Urbanization Suburbanization

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today.] And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.”

Stills Today Results Limits Losing South African American Ghetto Migration Workforce Suburbanization

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.”

Source: Super-Cannes: A Novel

“In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.”

“The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.”

Bigs Form Party Cities Entertainment Spread Dinner Fifth Columns Insidious Dinner Party Big Cities Metropolis Suburbanization

Book:Getting Personal: Selected Writings

Source: Getting Personal: Selected Writings