“The aim was to illustrate the myth of the all-white suburb and to show the changes of Westchester, and the importance of understanding not only what's happening now, but that there's a lengthy history of people who are considered 'the other' being part of our productive society.”
Lisa Keller
“They are now catching up. There was no commercial activity, while the (former white) suburbs were becoming mixed use areas which is why they became popular.”
John Loos
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles”
Cedric Belfrage
“In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,Is best to lodge.”
William Shakespeare
“If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story.”
Michael Winerip
