I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that crap - developers, realtors, various money people - have kicked back waiting for the system to get going again, to resume all their accustomed behavior. They wait in vain. They just haven't figured out that we face a new disposition of things.