From cornfields to backyards

In yet another Slate slideshow, Witold Rybczynski explains the details of how a farms turns into houses. These slides are in support of Slate's publication of excerpts (1, 2, 3) from his new book, Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville. The development he looks at, New Daleville, isn't that from us, but instead of driving there you could just visit the website. Or look at it on the EPD map.

If you read the details you'll find that his ideas on sprawl and architecture are probably not as simple as you might first have suspected.