The Fiasco of Suburbia, Its Implications, and Its Destiny

…For centuries, a countryside chateau was the dream and ambition of wealthy families throughout Europe. And then, about 600 years after peasants hauled the first granite stones to the site of the Chateau d’Agneaux, an American version of this dream began to take shape across the fifty United States. Millions of Americans aspired to flee the grime of the cities for the splendor of the countryside


The original designers of the American suburb must have imagined that their residential innovation would endure as long as the stones of Chateau d’Agneaux. Instead, as Kunstler passionately argued, the American suburbs will fall as rapidly as the House of Usher.

HoweStreet.com