Legally Sociable

Pleasant Musings on Sociology, McMansions and Housing, Suburbs and Cities, and Miscellaneous Errata.

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Every Somewhere Sacred
  • Sanctifying Suburbia
  • Building Faith and Religious Buildings
  • Published Books and Articles
  • Defining a McMansion
  • Why Americans Love Suburbs
  • Learning About a Suburb
  • Suburban Homes on TV
  • The Future of Suburbs
  • Religion in the US suburbs
  • Contact

Defining a McMansion

This blog contains much discussion of McMansions. It is helpful to start with an accurate definition of such homes. Here are four posts that explain what makes a McMansion:

Defining a McMansion, Trait #1: Size

Defining a McMansion, Trait #2: Relative size

Defining a McMansion, Trait #3: Architecture and design

Defining a McMansion, Trait #4: A symbol

For a more formal discussion of this definition, see “Competing Visions of the Single-Family Home: Defining McMansions in the New York Times and Dallas Morning News, 2000-2009″ published in the Journal of Urban History.

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
Like Loading...

Recent Posts

  • “In effect, drivers faced a rush hour that lasted all day long”
  • Beyond Halloween, what would make a suburban home spooky to the neighbors
  • Local regulations, small stores, and parking at Trader Joe’s
  • Trying to expand bus service in the Chicago suburbs
  • The dueling TV and film production centers in the United States
  • Considering the total cost of the American Dream
  • Surprised by nature in suburban settings, two recent examples
  • The birds of prey perched above Chicagoland
  • Recent debate between Senate candidates includes accusation of owning a McMansion
  • Chicago Marathon among marathons held in leading global cities

Categories

  • Business and Economy (709)
  • Colleges and Universities (264)
  • Entertainment (655)
  • Gadgets and Technology (708)
  • Legal (225)
  • McMansions (657)
  • My Research (15)
  • Places (1,483)
  • Politics (628)
  • Publications (28)
  • Quick Review (95)
  • Religion (336)
  • Sociology (8,247)
  • Sports (323)
  • Transportation (623)

Tags

affordable housing American culture American Dream architecture cars Chicago Chicago region cities COVID-19 data design development driving economic crisis Facebook homeownership housing housing market inequality infrastructure Internet local government McMansions media methodology Naperville New York City NIMBY race real estate redevelopment residential segregation single-family homes social class sprawl square feet suburbs traffic urban planning wealthy

Feeds

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Follow LSociable on Twitter

My Tweets
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    Legally Sociable
    Join 683 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • Legally Sociable
    Copy shortlinkView post in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar
%d