“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.” WayFirstsChildrenFormTurnsGrowsParentWhiteCitiesGrowing UpImagineGenerationsStreetsGayBreatheFlightHighwaysObsoleteSuburbsLawnsSkylines Author:Herbert Muschamp
“I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.” ThinkingKnowsWayDifferentNextGoalGenerationsCreatingAnother WayNext GenerationBlueprints Author:Janelle Monae
“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.” WayUsedThreeHouseSocialProcessCommunityGenerationsLondonFamiliarUsed To BeLandscapeBuyingColonyAssimilationIdentifyingRestoringThree Generations Author:Peter York
“The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.” WorldWayPastGenerationsCornersAccessGlobesPast Present Author:Edgar Guest
“In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.” WayWritingLastsGenerationsObservation Author:Alexis Denisof