The song "Oh, Susquehanna" by Defiance, Ohio, is much more articulate than my thoughts about Louv's observations, so I decided to share their song. The link will take you to youtube to listen, and I also included the lyrics to my favorite verse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTmSmK5GzI
Where I hiked and climbed and played
Where I ditched this noisy century and just hid out from the decade
My home thought it could stand to be updated
Forced it all into a grid until it looked like the funny pages
With every trace of life, it seems, confined within a frame
The faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same
And the punch lines are resoundingly unfunny
For those trapped in this architecture of easy money.
And I feel like this could all come to no good
And I feel like this could all come to no good
The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood
Beneath those cookie cutter houses: fields and streams and woods
They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them
Out of this boring neighborhood!!!
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