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From the Ted Talk by Kate Wagner: I hate McMansions -- and you should too


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First of all, I'd like to azpoigloe to anyone in the room who ciordness themselves to be architecturally sensitive. What you're about to see may uepst you. So, the number one question I get in my inbox all the time is, so McMansion hell, what the hell is McMansion? So, it's pretty easy. I've narrowed it down to a culope of factors. First of all, they are oeezrivsd. That means there's over 3,000 square feet which is 500 feet more than the highest national housing aveagre. So, AKA that space, as you can see here probably 26 children. (Laughter) And the other thing is, if you look at this house, which is quite lovely, (lutahger) I'm sorry. This huose probably has three media rooms, seven bathrooms with a garden tub, and a chandelier and whatever, but it doesn't have a fornt porch and I cannot find the front door. (Laughter) Also there's no lawn So, that leads to my second point, they are poorly designed. So, that means there's no respect for form or scale or other things that people in the architecture would call 'the basic rules of architecture.' So, as you can see here, this house looks like it was designed by someone who maybe saw a house once in their life, but either had some sort of visual issues or was wearing kaleidoscope glasses that you get during Halloween. Even wsore these poorly designed houses are cheaply csuecnrottd. So, I will get to that in a second. But, I'd like to point out that this is an engineering marvel. This is a house that is a wood frame covered in different tpeys of foam. (Laughter) So, and finally, they are disrespectful. (Laughter) So, you have to feel really bad for the poor folks in these little houses who on longer have any nrautal lihgt in their hoems. It is a dark time for them as it is for all of us. So, basically they are fundamentally bad ariuttcherce. Now, even though I'm dressed impeccably well, I'm not the gatekeeper of what is and is not good aesthetic architecture. But, we've been talking about these things in architectural history for thousands of years siranttg with Vitruvius, the great-great-great -granddaddy of architecture. Sorry art hostiry mjoras, this is going to be boring. So, Vitruvius said that architecture should be three things, right? It should be durable, it should be useful or functional, and it should be beautiful. And McMansions are well, you know, none of these things. So, let's start with durable. So, through most of human history houses were built to last generations, that means that you were born in the house, had kids in your house, died in your house, and then your kids had kids in your house and died in your house. AKA, they were permanent. That changed in the 1980s with access to cheaper construction methods and materials and also in deregulation economies, etc, csnuiag a huge honuisg bubble, right? That we all know of. And basically these houses weren't built to last 15 yreas, because they were biult to have the most amount of space for the lsewot price, and people didn't really care about how long they'd last anyway because they were going to live there for maybe six years, maybe less because they were going to flip that house and make, like, a million dollars. A mlioiln dollars. (Laughter) And they would be on the next house before you ever knew it, so it was not their problem anymore, but we all know how that ended. So that brings me to another part of durability- they are not aesthetically dulabre. That means that certain house designs like you know, you have the box, and the box has a roof and the roof looks like this, and this is the house that every child dwras, this is your idea of the house. These hoeuss, of course, as you can see in this case, this is a house that is got water damage, and the balconies don't lay anywhere, you can actually go out open those doors, you will fall into your yard. (Laughter) These were just trends. People saw stuff like this on TV and said, "I want that on my house." And so they're not really aesthetically durable because they were built on these trends, and when the trends ran out, they would be onto the third house or the frutoh house because they were flipping and making millions of drlalos. So, according to Bloomberg now, these houses aren't selling well. And houses that are smaller, you know, like normal people houses, built for normal people not giant cars to live in, are appreciating at a much hehigr and faster rate. And so we are gonna move on to useful. What does it mean for house to be useful? So there are primary uses for a house. One is to keep us, you know, out of the elements. Like you saw in the last example, it's not doing a good job of that with the water dmaage in the missing deck. Oh, speaking of the emeletns, imaging trying to heat and cool that house. So you can't even stay warm or cool without spending mlloiins of dollars. (Laughter) But most of all, a house is suppose to be our home. It's a place for our sanctuary, community, and being one with our families. And in a space that is designed where everyone has their own room, and their own living room, and their own dining room, and their own pool table? You don't have to interact with any members of your family. So trust me I would have loved that in the seventh grade. But I think most of us are the well-adjusted people that we are, because we've had to fight with our siblings in our parents, and all these things that come from living in a smaller-knit space. And when you rob that sense of ctmmonuiy from our homes, what real porupse do they have? But McMansions ignore both of these ppoesurs to focus on a new purpose, and that purpose was the house is an asset, the house was now becoming through sieers of, you know, deregulatory ecmonioc policies, etc, a liquid asset, it was money, it was no longer a place to live, and it was seperated from the sense of place and space that we know and consider our homes, and so befauitul. McMansions don't follow the rules of tonaairidtl architecture, but really love to use the icons and the symbols, and shapes of the traditional architecture like columns in windows setyls, and the box with the roof, though the roof is three times as big as the box. And in this case, you can see none of the wowidns actually match. Some have muntains which is the bits that stpreaae the panes of glass, and some don't, and most of all it looks like it is a screaming ainaml. (Laughter) So, there's no reargd for basic matching, slcae, you know, the rules of architecture, because they were deinsegd mostly from the inside out, and mommy really needed her cathedral ceilings in the bathroom. You know sometimes that meant you had a roof on that looked like this. Okay what's the point, right? Why do I even care about McMansions if they are so horrible, and why do I write about them? Well, it's about education. 60 percent of people according to the U.S. census bureau live in the suburbs, and not all of us have ascecs to the fabric of our cities that have buildings from different eras, and all their beautiful details, all interwoven into an urban faribc. Most of us have to live with, you know, mncaonsims. And so it's about teaching with what you have, and also they're politically charged. They're sort of the poster child of the recession, and they are attached to concepts like uaisbnrm and sustainability and other things that make up a better world. You might be still asking, "Okay, well, why not talk about you know good architecture?" Well why so negative? I started writing about architecture in high school to defend buildings like this. This is the Goshen Government Centre by Paul Rudolph, in Goshen, New York which is undergoing, what I like to call 'a murder.' (Laughter). I discovered, in the fight for preservation of late modernist and post-modernist architecture which is the part that I like, if you were on the side of "I don't like this," you have the advantage. People say, "Oh, I like this," and like, okay, but if you say, "I don't like this," then like why? And if you don't know why you're pretty much a jerk - but that gets people talking and starts a disscusion and so in McMansion hell I saw this opportunity to explore, because a lof people hate McMansions but they have no idea why. They're like, "I hate that, it's big and it's ugly!", but they don't know what is so ugly about it or why it seems so big, and that's sort of where I come in, and it birgns me to my final pnoit. It's about the greater purpose. So my poefrsosr at Peabody where I study acoustics has this saying that says, "The first step to good design is avoiding the bad, then you can design the good, and the first step to avoiding the bad is rceoingznig the bad." It's about looking at the world through a critical eye, and the best part about being snarky is that you are aocaltiatlmuy critical. And so people can say, aidonivg the bad, right? You don't want a house thet looks like the ginormous thing that's on the screen here. This is llatliery the mscominan, it is a house that someone took to their little mouth and blew up into a balloon. It's like they took the nice house with the cable and (pfufs) Now if you know I don't like that, and here's why I don't like that then I can sratt thinking about encouraging other people and educating them about why I don't like that and they don't like that. And maybe through this sort of education and design, getting polpee who don't care about design to talk about design is another really huge step in perpetuating better design. And so through using America's ugliest and most hated houses, I mean, I'm sorry. We can... (Laughter) In talking about them in a way that introduces humor so it's not, "I'm shoving my good design down your throat, dang you!" We can eroauncge people through discussion, through education, through empowerment, to be a greater force for change, and a change towards a more beautiful, a more sustainable, a more inclusive, and you know, a better-looking world. (Laughter) Or at least, prevent them from biuidnlg more McMansions. Thank you! (Applause)

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First of all, I'd like to _________ to anyone in the room who _________ themselves to be architecturally sensitive. What you're about to see may _____ you. So, the number one question I get in my inbox all the time is, so McMansion hell, what the hell is McMansion? So, it's pretty easy. I've narrowed it down to a ______ of factors. First of all, they are _________. That means there's over 3,000 square feet which is 500 feet more than the highest national housing _______. So, AKA that space, as you can see here probably 26 children. (Laughter) And the other thing is, if you look at this house, which is quite lovely, (________) I'm sorry. This _____ probably has three media rooms, seven bathrooms with a garden tub, and a chandelier and whatever, but it doesn't have a _____ porch and I cannot find the front door. (Laughter) Also there's no lawn So, that leads to my second point, they are poorly designed. So, that means there's no respect for form or scale or other things that people in the architecture would call 'the basic rules of architecture.' So, as you can see here, this house looks like it was designed by someone who maybe saw a house once in their life, but either had some sort of visual issues or was wearing kaleidoscope glasses that you get during Halloween. Even _____ these poorly designed houses are cheaply ___________. So, I will get to that in a second. But, I'd like to point out that this is an engineering marvel. This is a house that is a wood frame covered in different _____ of foam. (Laughter) So, and finally, they are disrespectful. (Laughter) So, you have to feel really bad for the poor folks in these little houses who on longer have any _______ _____ in their _____. It is a dark time for them as it is for all of us. So, basically they are fundamentally bad ____________. Now, even though I'm dressed impeccably well, I'm not the gatekeeper of what is and is not good aesthetic architecture. But, we've been talking about these things in architectural history for thousands of years ________ with Vitruvius, the great-great-great -granddaddy of architecture. Sorry art _______ ______, this is going to be boring. So, Vitruvius said that architecture should be three things, right? It should be durable, it should be useful or functional, and it should be beautiful. And McMansions are well, you know, none of these things. So, let's start with durable. So, through most of human history houses were built to last generations, that means that you were born in the house, had kids in your house, died in your house, and then your kids had kids in your house and died in your house. AKA, they were permanent. That changed in the 1980s with access to cheaper construction methods and materials and also in deregulation economies, etc, _______ a huge _______ bubble, right? That we all know of. And basically these houses weren't built to last 15 _____, because they were _____ to have the most amount of space for the ______ price, and people didn't really care about how long they'd last anyway because they were going to live there for maybe six years, maybe less because they were going to flip that house and make, like, a million dollars. A _______ dollars. (Laughter) And they would be on the next house before you ever knew it, so it was not their problem anymore, but we all know how that ended. So that brings me to another part of durability- they are not aesthetically _______. That means that certain house designs like you know, you have the box, and the box has a roof and the roof looks like this, and this is the house that every child _____, this is your idea of the house. These ______, of course, as you can see in this case, this is a house that is got water damage, and the balconies don't lay anywhere, you can actually go out open those doors, you will fall into your yard. (Laughter) These were just trends. People saw stuff like this on TV and said, "I want that on my house." And so they're not really aesthetically durable because they were built on these trends, and when the trends ran out, they would be onto the third house or the ______ house because they were flipping and making millions of _______. So, according to Bloomberg now, these houses aren't selling well. And houses that are smaller, you know, like normal people houses, built for normal people not giant cars to live in, are appreciating at a much ______ and faster rate. And so we are gonna move on to useful. What does it mean for house to be useful? So there are primary uses for a house. One is to keep us, you know, out of the elements. Like you saw in the last example, it's not doing a good job of that with the water ______ in the missing deck. Oh, speaking of the ________, imaging trying to heat and cool that house. So you can't even stay warm or cool without spending ________ of dollars. (Laughter) But most of all, a house is suppose to be our home. It's a place for our sanctuary, community, and being one with our families. And in a space that is designed where everyone has their own room, and their own living room, and their own dining room, and their own pool table? You don't have to interact with any members of your family. So trust me I would have loved that in the seventh grade. But I think most of us are the well-adjusted people that we are, because we've had to fight with our siblings in our parents, and all these things that come from living in a smaller-knit space. And when you rob that sense of _________ from our homes, what real _______ do they have? But McMansions ignore both of these ________ to focus on a new purpose, and that purpose was the house is an asset, the house was now becoming through ______ of, you know, deregulatory ________ policies, etc, a liquid asset, it was money, it was no longer a place to live, and it was seperated from the sense of place and space that we know and consider our homes, and so _________. McMansions don't follow the rules of ___________ architecture, but really love to use the icons and the symbols, and shapes of the traditional architecture like columns in windows ______, and the box with the roof, though the roof is three times as big as the box. And in this case, you can see none of the _______ actually match. Some have muntains which is the bits that ________ the panes of glass, and some don't, and most of all it looks like it is a screaming ______. (Laughter) So, there's no ______ for basic matching, _____, you know, the rules of architecture, because they were ________ mostly from the inside out, and mommy really needed her cathedral ceilings in the bathroom. You know sometimes that meant you had a roof on that looked like this. Okay what's the point, right? Why do I even care about McMansions if they are so horrible, and why do I write about them? Well, it's about education. 60 percent of people according to the U.S. census bureau live in the suburbs, and not all of us have ______ to the fabric of our cities that have buildings from different eras, and all their beautiful details, all interwoven into an urban ______. Most of us have to live with, you know, __________. And so it's about teaching with what you have, and also they're politically charged. They're sort of the poster child of the recession, and they are attached to concepts like ________ and sustainability and other things that make up a better world. You might be still asking, "Okay, well, why not talk about you know good architecture?" Well why so negative? I started writing about architecture in high school to defend buildings like this. This is the Goshen Government Centre by Paul Rudolph, in Goshen, New York which is undergoing, what I like to call 'a murder.' (Laughter). I discovered, in the fight for preservation of late modernist and post-modernist architecture which is the part that I like, if you were on the side of "I don't like this," you have the advantage. People say, "Oh, I like this," and like, okay, but if you say, "I don't like this," then like why? And if you don't know why you're pretty much a jerk - but that gets people talking and starts a disscusion and so in McMansion hell I saw this opportunity to explore, because a lof people hate McMansions but they have no idea why. They're like, "I hate that, it's big and it's ugly!", but they don't know what is so ugly about it or why it seems so big, and that's sort of where I come in, and it ______ me to my final _____. It's about the greater purpose. So my _________ at Peabody where I study acoustics has this saying that says, "The first step to good design is avoiding the bad, then you can design the good, and the first step to avoiding the bad is ___________ the bad." It's about looking at the world through a critical eye, and the best part about being snarky is that you are _____________ critical. And so people can say, ________ the bad, right? You don't want a house thet looks like the ginormous thing that's on the screen here. This is _________ the _________, it is a house that someone took to their little mouth and blew up into a balloon. It's like they took the nice house with the cable and (_____) Now if you know I don't like that, and here's why I don't like that then I can _____ thinking about encouraging other people and educating them about why I don't like that and they don't like that. And maybe through this sort of education and design, getting ______ who don't care about design to talk about design is another really huge step in perpetuating better design. And so through using America's ugliest and most hated houses, I mean, I'm sorry. We can... (Laughter) In talking about them in a way that introduces humor so it's not, "I'm shoving my good design down your throat, dang you!" We can _________ people through discussion, through education, through empowerment, to be a greater force for change, and a change towards a more beautiful, a more sustainable, a more inclusive, and you know, a better-looking world. (Laughter) Or at least, prevent them from ________ more McMansions. Thank you! (Applause)

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Original Text


First of all, I'd like to apologize to anyone in the room who considers themselves to be architecturally sensitive. What you're about to see may upset you. So, the number one question I get in my inbox all the time is, so McMansion hell, what the hell is McMansion? So, it's pretty easy. I've narrowed it down to a couple of factors. First of all, they are oversized. That means there's over 3,000 square feet which is 500 feet more than the highest national housing average. So, AKA that space, as you can see here probably 26 children. (Laughter) And the other thing is, if you look at this house, which is quite lovely, (Laughter) I'm sorry. This house probably has three media rooms, seven bathrooms with a garden tub, and a chandelier and whatever, but it doesn't have a front porch and I cannot find the front door. (Laughter) Also there's no lawn So, that leads to my second point, they are poorly designed. So, that means there's no respect for form or scale or other things that people in the architecture would call 'the basic rules of architecture.' So, as you can see here, this house looks like it was designed by someone who maybe saw a house once in their life, but either had some sort of visual issues or was wearing kaleidoscope glasses that you get during Halloween. Even worse these poorly designed houses are cheaply constructed. So, I will get to that in a second. But, I'd like to point out that this is an engineering marvel. This is a house that is a wood frame covered in different types of foam. (Laughter) So, and finally, they are disrespectful. (Laughter) So, you have to feel really bad for the poor folks in these little houses who on longer have any natural light in their homes. It is a dark time for them as it is for all of us. So, basically they are fundamentally bad architecture. Now, even though I'm dressed impeccably well, I'm not the gatekeeper of what is and is not good aesthetic architecture. But, we've been talking about these things in architectural history for thousands of years starting with Vitruvius, the great-great-great -granddaddy of architecture. Sorry art history majors, this is going to be boring. So, Vitruvius said that architecture should be three things, right? It should be durable, it should be useful or functional, and it should be beautiful. And McMansions are well, you know, none of these things. So, let's start with durable. So, through most of human history houses were built to last generations, that means that you were born in the house, had kids in your house, died in your house, and then your kids had kids in your house and died in your house. AKA, they were permanent. That changed in the 1980s with access to cheaper construction methods and materials and also in deregulation economies, etc, causing a huge housing bubble, right? That we all know of. And basically these houses weren't built to last 15 years, because they were built to have the most amount of space for the lowest price, and people didn't really care about how long they'd last anyway because they were going to live there for maybe six years, maybe less because they were going to flip that house and make, like, a million dollars. A million dollars. (Laughter) And they would be on the next house before you ever knew it, so it was not their problem anymore, but we all know how that ended. So that brings me to another part of durability- they are not aesthetically durable. That means that certain house designs like you know, you have the box, and the box has a roof and the roof looks like this, and this is the house that every child draws, this is your idea of the house. These houses, of course, as you can see in this case, this is a house that is got water damage, and the balconies don't lay anywhere, you can actually go out open those doors, you will fall into your yard. (Laughter) These were just trends. People saw stuff like this on TV and said, "I want that on my house." And so they're not really aesthetically durable because they were built on these trends, and when the trends ran out, they would be onto the third house or the fourth house because they were flipping and making millions of dollars. So, according to Bloomberg now, these houses aren't selling well. And houses that are smaller, you know, like normal people houses, built for normal people not giant cars to live in, are appreciating at a much higher and faster rate. And so we are gonna move on to useful. What does it mean for house to be useful? So there are primary uses for a house. One is to keep us, you know, out of the elements. Like you saw in the last example, it's not doing a good job of that with the water damage in the missing deck. Oh, speaking of the elements, imaging trying to heat and cool that house. So you can't even stay warm or cool without spending millions of dollars. (Laughter) But most of all, a house is suppose to be our home. It's a place for our sanctuary, community, and being one with our families. And in a space that is designed where everyone has their own room, and their own living room, and their own dining room, and their own pool table? You don't have to interact with any members of your family. So trust me I would have loved that in the seventh grade. But I think most of us are the well-adjusted people that we are, because we've had to fight with our siblings in our parents, and all these things that come from living in a smaller-knit space. And when you rob that sense of community from our homes, what real purpose do they have? But McMansions ignore both of these purposes to focus on a new purpose, and that purpose was the house is an asset, the house was now becoming through series of, you know, deregulatory economic policies, etc, a liquid asset, it was money, it was no longer a place to live, and it was seperated from the sense of place and space that we know and consider our homes, and so beautiful. McMansions don't follow the rules of traditional architecture, but really love to use the icons and the symbols, and shapes of the traditional architecture like columns in windows styles, and the box with the roof, though the roof is three times as big as the box. And in this case, you can see none of the windows actually match. Some have muntains which is the bits that separate the panes of glass, and some don't, and most of all it looks like it is a screaming animal. (Laughter) So, there's no regard for basic matching, scale, you know, the rules of architecture, because they were designed mostly from the inside out, and mommy really needed her cathedral ceilings in the bathroom. You know sometimes that meant you had a roof on that looked like this. Okay what's the point, right? Why do I even care about McMansions if they are so horrible, and why do I write about them? Well, it's about education. 60 percent of people according to the U.S. census bureau live in the suburbs, and not all of us have access to the fabric of our cities that have buildings from different eras, and all their beautiful details, all interwoven into an urban fabric. Most of us have to live with, you know, McMansions. And so it's about teaching with what you have, and also they're politically charged. They're sort of the poster child of the recession, and they are attached to concepts like urbanism and sustainability and other things that make up a better world. You might be still asking, "Okay, well, why not talk about you know good architecture?" Well why so negative? I started writing about architecture in high school to defend buildings like this. This is the Goshen Government Centre by Paul Rudolph, in Goshen, New York which is undergoing, what I like to call 'a murder.' (Laughter). I discovered, in the fight for preservation of late modernist and post-modernist architecture which is the part that I like, if you were on the side of "I don't like this," you have the advantage. People say, "Oh, I like this," and like, okay, but if you say, "I don't like this," then like why? And if you don't know why you're pretty much a jerk - but that gets people talking and starts a disscusion and so in McMansion hell I saw this opportunity to explore, because a lof people hate McMansions but they have no idea why. They're like, "I hate that, it's big and it's ugly!", but they don't know what is so ugly about it or why it seems so big, and that's sort of where I come in, and it brings me to my final point. It's about the greater purpose. So my professor at Peabody where I study acoustics has this saying that says, "The first step to good design is avoiding the bad, then you can design the good, and the first step to avoiding the bad is recognizing the bad." It's about looking at the world through a critical eye, and the best part about being snarky is that you are automatically critical. And so people can say, avoiding the bad, right? You don't want a house thet looks like the ginormous thing that's on the screen here. This is literally the McMansion, it is a house that someone took to their little mouth and blew up into a balloon. It's like they took the nice house with the cable and (Puffs) Now if you know I don't like that, and here's why I don't like that then I can start thinking about encouraging other people and educating them about why I don't like that and they don't like that. And maybe through this sort of education and design, getting people who don't care about design to talk about design is another really huge step in perpetuating better design. And so through using America's ugliest and most hated houses, I mean, I'm sorry. We can... (Laughter) In talking about them in a way that introduces humor so it's not, "I'm shoving my good design down your throat, dang you!" We can encourage people through discussion, through education, through empowerment, to be a greater force for change, and a change towards a more beautiful, a more sustainable, a more inclusive, and you know, a better-looking world. (Laughter) Or at least, prevent them from building more McMansions. Thank you! (Applause)

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  89. dollars
  90. door
  91. doors
  92. draws
  93. dressed
  94. durable
  95. easy
  96. economic
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  98. educating
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  100. elements
  101. empowerment
  102. encourage
  103. encouraging
  104. ended
  105. engineering
  106. eras
  107. explore
  108. eye
  109. fabric
  110. factors
  111. fall
  112. families
  113. family
  114. faster
  115. feel
  116. feet
  117. fight
  118. final
  119. finally
  120. find
  121. flip
  122. flipping
  123. foam
  124. focus
  125. folks
  126. follow
  127. force
  128. form
  129. fourth
  130. frame
  131. front
  132. functional
  133. fundamentally
  134. garden
  135. gatekeeper
  136. generations
  137. giant
  138. ginormous
  139. glass
  140. glasses
  141. gonna
  142. good
  143. goshen
  144. government
  145. grade
  146. greater
  147. halloween
  148. hate
  149. hated
  150. heat
  151. hell
  152. high
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  154. highest
  155. history
  156. home
  157. homes
  158. horrible
  159. house
  160. houses
  161. housing
  162. huge
  163. human
  164. humor
  165. icons
  166. idea
  167. ignore
  168. imaging
  169. impeccably
  170. inbox
  171. inclusive
  172. interact
  173. interwoven
  174. introduces
  175. issues
  176. jerk
  177. job
  178. kaleidoscope
  179. kids
  180. knew
  181. late
  182. laughter
  183. lawn
  184. lay
  185. leads
  186. life
  187. light
  188. liquid
  189. literally
  190. live
  191. living
  192. lof
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  194. longer
  195. looked
  196. love
  197. loved
  198. lovely
  199. lowest
  200. majors
  201. making
  202. marvel
  203. match
  204. matching
  205. materials
  206. mcmansion
  207. mcmansions
  208. means
  209. meant
  210. media
  211. members
  212. methods
  213. million
  214. millions
  215. missing
  216. modernist
  217. mommy
  218. money
  219. mouth
  220. move
  221. muntains
  222. murder
  223. narrowed
  224. national
  225. natural
  226. needed
  227. negative
  228. nice
  229. normal
  230. number
  231. open
  232. opportunity
  233. oversized
  234. panes
  235. parents
  236. part
  237. paul
  238. peabody
  239. people
  240. percent
  241. permanent
  242. perpetuating
  243. place
  244. point
  245. policies
  246. politically
  247. pool
  248. poor
  249. poorly
  250. porch
  251. poster
  252. preservation
  253. pretty
  254. prevent
  255. price
  256. primary
  257. problem
  258. professor
  259. puffs
  260. purpose
  261. purposes
  262. question
  263. ran
  264. rate
  265. real
  266. recession
  267. recognizing
  268. regard
  269. respect
  270. rob
  271. roof
  272. room
  273. rooms
  274. rudolph
  275. rules
  276. sanctuary
  277. scale
  278. school
  279. screaming
  280. screen
  281. selling
  282. sense
  283. sensitive
  284. separate
  285. seperated
  286. series
  287. seventh
  288. shapes
  289. shoving
  290. siblings
  291. side
  292. smaller
  293. snarky
  294. sort
  295. space
  296. speaking
  297. spending
  298. square
  299. start
  300. started
  301. starting
  302. starts
  303. stay
  304. step
  305. study
  306. stuff
  307. styles
  308. suburbs
  309. suppose
  310. sustainability
  311. sustainable
  312. symbols
  313. table
  314. talk
  315. talking
  316. teaching
  317. thet
  318. thinking
  319. thousands
  320. throat
  321. time
  322. times
  323. traditional
  324. trends
  325. trust
  326. tub
  327. tv
  328. types
  329. ugliest
  330. ugly
  331. undergoing
  332. upset
  333. urban
  334. urbanism
  335. visual
  336. vitruvius
  337. warm
  338. water
  339. wearing
  340. windows
  341. wood
  342. world
  343. worse
  344. write
  345. writing
  346. yard
  347. years
  348. york