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McMansions: Supersized Houses, Supersized Regulations URL: http://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/1713.pdf Description: January 2005 article about the current trend in which "homebuilders are continuing to build extra-large houses to meet buyers' demands." Includes data about the increase in home size, and details about how regulations in Austin, Dallas, and University Park, Texas, are trying to protect neighborhoods as infill of these large houses occurs. Opens directly into a PDF document. From Tierra Grande, the journal of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. Author: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer Publisher: Real Estate Center, Texas A&M University Extra Keywords monster house starter castle megahome Library of Congress Subject Headings: Architecture, Domestic Mansions Zoning LII Database Information: Record 20498 created by Maria Brandt on 01/30/2006 Last modification on 02/07/2008 Published: 02/02/2006 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20498 |