Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.