Apr 27 2008
Coming Soon: Suburban Blight
In the 60’s and 70’s a vast number of cities across the US were plagued by a phenomenon called
Urban Blight. A few weeks ago I read in 2 stories from separate news sources about
Youngstown Ohio, which is a former steel mill town just southeast of Cleveland that has been hit hard by the [...]
Feb 20 2008
McMansions Giving Way to New Urbanism
McMansion is a term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s as a description of a particular style of housing that is constructed in an assembly line fashion similar style of production of food at McDonald’s fast food restaurants. So-called “McMansions” often have a large footprint, cookie-cutter designs, similar architectural [...]
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