What’s Online: Suburbia’s March to Oblivion

Courtesy NYT > Business  Sat, 02/23/2008 - 03:23

THE mortgage crisis has put “for sale” signs in front of houses across the country — including so-called McMansions — the large, expensive, often tasteless homes that have taken up so much suburban space over the last couple of decades.


 

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