Since the Second World War, Americans have invested much of their new-found wealth in suburbia. It promised a sense of space, affordability, family life, and “upward mobility.”
As the population of suburban sprawl exploded over the past fifty years, so too did the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness: suburbia, and all it promised, became part of the American Dream. But as we entered the twenty-first century, serious questions began to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life.
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
