ABSTRACT
In recent years a myth of suburbia has developed in the United States. In saying this, I refer not to the physical facts of the movement to the suburbs; this is an ecological tendency to which all recent statistics on population mobility bear eloquent testimony.l I refer instead to the social and cultural ramifications that are perceived to have been inherent in the suburban exodus. Brunner and Hallenbeck, for example, call the rise of suburbia, 'one of the major social changes of the twentieth century', 2 and the popular literature especially is full of characterizations of suburbia as 'a new way of life'.
