Burbs Quotes

A lot of pedestrian-oriented sites in cities are getting more expensive. So developers are looking to capitalize on dead malls and old car lots and other commercial sites that aren't getting used in the suburbs. - Rolf Pendall

A lot of our songs tell stories. We like to reflect on what's happening in the suburbs. We do a lot of character songs; we take our friends and turn them into characters. We celebrate their idiosyncrasies. - Jack Jostes

[The circus also brings entertainment from the suburbs into the city.] A circus is a family event. It's one of the few experiences for a family to go out and take in at a very efficient cost... The cost of going to entertainment venues is typically very expensive. - Alan Lincoln

(In) the industrial cities of 100 years ago ... millions of urban dwellers ... were obliged to endure cramped and unsanitary tenements, traffic and pollution-choked streets and deadly factories. Today, by comparison, most residents of affluent metropolitan areas live in relatively low-density suburbs, areas that are much cleaner, greener and safer than the neighborhoods their great-grandparents inhabited. - Robert Bruegmann