Very interesting blog!

Tho, I didn’t really care for it, there is a great scene in BROKEN FLOWERS where the lead character has dinner with a former flame in a McMansion — very funny and an ambiguous statement regarding these “communities”

see also: bowlingalone.com and bettertogether.org

youve obviously never been to charlotte. bulldozing any of those older neighborhoods wouldnt be a bad idea…….but as you know, many new-er american cities with space to grow just went ahead and did that, they grew. hence sprawl. downtowns (see charlotte, atlanta,houston etc)never developed because people didnt want to or need to live close together, in boxes one piled one on top of another (the american dream still includes a house, a yard, and a fence). and in the case of many americans, they STILL dont want to live close together, and sprawl grows, and commute times worsen and gasoline bills creep ever higher…. the community youre writing about may already be dead. but thats not to say it cant be revived…i think that theres a larger social issue at hand other than not living close together thats at stake.

Actually, the fact they all got together and coordinated a group negotiation with the developer may indicate there WAS a community there. Also, they may have seen the handwriting on the wall in the wake of that highly questionable Supreme Court ruling that Eminent Domain can be brought to bear on private property for the profit of a private developer.

And most of the McMansions are ugly anyway.
All those huge freakin’ windows with the chandeliers or half moon windows..

Ooops. he he. My bad. It has been corrected!

Is Normal Rockwell that rebellious cousin of Norman? LOL…I have heard his art work is more avant garde….