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Bill Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

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The quote highlights how suburban developers remove natural landscapes, like trees, to build neighborhoods but then use the names of those destroyed trees for the streets. This points out a kind of irony where the original environment is erased yet superficially remembered through street names.

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