Supersized Houses and People
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01.10.06
We do go on about living with less and complain about monster houses, but perhaps it is because bike riding vegetarian treehuggers simply take up less space. Dean Johnson plotted increases in house square footage against increases in obesity in the US and found this surprising correlation. Did Americans grow to fit the environment or did the houses grow to fit the Americans? :: Alchemic Spot via ::Seth Godin
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