January 2016
The Sound STC • Vol.2 Issue 01
Prole Play
By Dennis Soron
In the documentary film The End of Suburbia, American social critic James Howard Kunstler makes a pointed quip about how new housing tracts today are so often named after
what is destroyed in the process of building them. Thus, the very forests, wetlands, and bird
and animal habitats plowed over by the developer’s bulldozer give way to suburban estates
with specious names like “Poplar Ridge”, “Fox Hollow”, “Pine Knoll”, “Quail Run”, “Turtle
Brook”, ”Deer Meadow”, and so on. In a rather duplicitous manner, such developm