Tract Housing

“People have to have a place to live” my dad said.

But there is no law that says human habitations necessarily have to be a blight on the land, the way they increasingly are. 

And what is the deal with these winding curvy residential streets in a dead flat valley? To me--dishonesty. 

There is a good honest simplicity to a square grid--all early valley towns are designed that way, and for a good solid reason. 

My plea: let’s slow up on the house-building boom just for a microsecond, until we figure out a more efficient and less obtrusive way to go about it. (In fact, I have a sort of modular concept in mind that I will hand over to anyone who will actually try it and you can call it your own idea). We need to make neighborhoods that look like real communities and act like it. 

And enough Consumer Castles already!