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OCR Page 1 of 12How Suburban Design Is Failing Teen-Agers
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picture of the suburbs. Is there an unexplored relationship between
them? It is a question parents and urban planners alike are raising in
the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton,
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the sociological ills of cities, suburbs now stand accused of creating
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their own environmental diseases: lack of character and the
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grounding principles of identity, lack of diversity or the tolerance it
engenders, lack of attachment to shared, civic ideals. Increasingly,
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the newest, largest suburbs are being criticized as landscapes
scorched by unthoughtful, repetitious building, where, it has been
suggested, the isolations of larger lots and a car-based culture may
lead to disassociation from the reality of contact with other people.
Designers of the newest American suburbs say they have largely
ignored or avoided one volatile segment of the population - teen-
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