Age segregation in suburbs promises calm but requires urban proximity.

Evidence

Perhaps, from the point of view of the developers, the delights of age segregation (including, apparently, political homogenization) will compensate for the fact that buyers are going to have to enjoy their “country living” in the midst of one of the most urbanized sections of the United States (Newsweek, September 14, 1970). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 426

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the reader’s urban-anonymity project: the blasé flight from the city is itself parasitic on the city, mirroring Simmel’s account of the metropolis as both stimulus and refuge.