Bigger But Not Better

Michael Sokolove, writing in The New York Times Magazine, discusses the McMansion phenomenon and mourns:

I decided there should be a law: Before you knock down a house, you should have to post its picture on a nearby tree (one that will not get hacked down), because part of what's so disturbing to me is the instant obliteration of history and memory. Here was a house where families lived, tomatoes grew, children played catch. . .and now it is gone and unrecognizable. The whole damn thing has gone into a Dumpster and then off to the landfill, like a bag of trash set out on the curb.

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