“Americans do not hate their cities. Rather, they are ambivalent about them, and their ambivalence has ebbed and flowed with the prospects that cities have offered. Even when antiurbanism was ostensibly most pronounced, many people praised the city, moved there for fame and fortune, and remained in order to enjoy the good life. “Cities,” an observed claimed, “express an ambivalence in the American soul.”
— Robert Beauregard, How America Became Suburban
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