There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
LAST week the words that Malvina L Reynolds used in her celebrated 1964 folk song* to describe her view of the standardized world of suburbia's "little boxes on the hillside" seemed to assume new relevance. Two reports commissioned by the Federal Government—one on urban and the other on suburban problems—indicated that suburbia is hardly a refuge for those seeking escape from the blight of U.S. cities. The problems that have all but...
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