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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
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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