Monster Houses Devour Neighborhood Scale

In a currently popular coffee-table book titled The Not So Big House, Minneapolis-based architect Sarah Susanka argues for an age-old idea that seems quaint in our hyper economic boom times: quality is better than quantity. When it comes to addressing the current planning dilemma called monster houses — the phenomenon of tearing down older houses and rebuilding with Godzilla proportions in Bambi neighborhoods — Susanka may be to the 2000s what Andres Duany was to the 1990s: an architect that has desig...

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