New post on Ordinary Homes: McMansions! A look at tax policies & lifestyles that led to it, ways cities have tried to stop them (while still leaving incentives for them in place), as well as the new type of compact #McMansion popular in the western US.
https://ordinaryhomes.blogspot.com/2023/08/mcmansion.html 🏘️

@coloradosun it would be less expensive and more effective to redesign streets for #transit and #biking, remove parking minimums, and rezone low density #McMansion neighborhoods for more housing and mixed use

McMansion Hell
https://mcmansionhell.com
#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly_houses

@SomaFMrusty

It's the equivalent of a #McMansion with a rusty car up on blocks on the front lawn.

He has no taste. That's why he has to constantly tell people how #classy he is.

This is good stuff -- Bad Manors by Kate Wagner

"Perhaps the McMansion will only come to an end when the ethos it represents becomes impossible [...] choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale." #mcmansion #cityplanning #urbanism

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

This house has some real Sudden Valley vibes.

#idaho #ArrestedDevelopment #BananaStand #McMansion

I made an AI art thing. 👀 Fit for McMansion Hell, this neighborhood! Bing gives me a creepy Mars-rover-esque vehicle...on a pedestrian-and-bicycle-only street. The houses don't look much like log cabins either. Totally nails the creepy vibe of the Owens Valley, though.

#AI #artificialintelligence #AIart #thoughts #artist #thoughts #technology #self #suburb #housing #McMansion #McMansionHell

Kate Wagner's latest in #McMansion #Hell

https://mcmansionhell.com/post/703763852735692801/this-house-may-or-may-not-be-real