Quote:
Originally Posted by dpg
Who ever came up with the term McMansions anyway? I think it's the dumbest name and no it's not because I don't own one.
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMansion
McMansion is a pejorative
neologism, coined by NY environmentalist
Jay Westervelt, (Westerveld)
[1] to describe a particular type of
housing that is constructed in an assembly line fashion reminiscent of food production at
McDonald'sfast food restaurants. The term is one of many
McWords. A McMansion often denotes a home with a larger footprint than a
median home, an indistinct architectural style similar to others nearby, and is often located in a newer, larger
subdivision or replaces an existing, smaller structure in an older neighborhood.
A McMansion is generally considered
[who?] a house between 3000 ft² (280 m²) to 5000 ft² (460 m²) in size, on small lots (the house itself often covering a larger portion of the land than the yard), in homogeneous communities that are often produced by a developer. Although they are generally large homes, they are mass produced and are not of the caliber of a
mansion. Their cost places them in the purchasing range of the
upper middle class segment of the population.
The term
McMansion first appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1990
[citation needed]; it later appeared in the
Los Angeles Times[2] and
New York Times in 1998.
[3]