“More than half a century of urban planning prioritizing sprawl has gotten us to where we are now: choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale.”

#KateWagner critiques the USian commitment to “endless consumption” through the lens of the prolific McMansion.

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/bad-manors-wagner

#Urbanism #Architecture #Mcmansions #Consumerism

The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse

The McMansion has survived financial crises and ecological catastrophes to become a monument to this country’s will to self-annihilation.

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