Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

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 was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.