{"id":112117,"date":"2017-06-28T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=112117"},"modified":"2017-06-28T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:59:39","slug":"return-of-the-zombie-mcmansion-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/return-of-the-zombie-mcmansion-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Zombie McMansion, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_112118\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112118\" class=\"wp-image-112118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mcmansion-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It lives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We thought we\u2019d solved this problem. This time, we hoped, it was gone for good. But it\u2019s back. Drive into the suburbs and you\u2019ll see it, something out of the nightmares you have when you eat a big meal just before bed. Risen from the dead to stoke our deepest fears, it is: the Zombie McMansion. Okay, maybe its foam-filled, non-load-bearing Doric columns are showing their age a bit; maybe a few of the quoins are starting to peel off, and some of the two-dozen dormer windows no longer open. But it still stands, and worse still, young people are still willing to buy it. As Ana Swanson reports, the improved housing market means a return of architectural crimes against humanity: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/06\/26\/the-ultimate-symbol-of-the-pre-recession-boom-is-back\/?utm_term=.890bf62d605a\" target=\"_blank\">Today, McMansions are not exactly cool, especially compared with the exposed-brick urban lofts young people today will pay exorbitant prices for<\/a>. But with the recent recovery of the housing market, they are coming back anyway. As Americans have started building and flipping houses again, they are once again buying McMansions. Since 2009, construction of these homes has steadily trended upward, data from Zillow, a real-estate website, shows. The median home value of McMansions is also rising, at a pace that eclipses the value of the median American home \u2026 Many casual onlookers have forecast the death of the suburbs in recent years, especially as younger renters and buyers turn an eye to city centers \u2026 Yet younger people who are starting families are still moving to the suburbs for more room, she says. About half of all millennials that purchased a home last year did so in the suburbs, according to Zillow data.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re looking at things that refuse to die, here\u2019s Kyle Chayka on <em>Monocle<\/em>, that shiny symbol of the global elite\u2014a magazine for the late aughts that persists, somehow, into the late teens: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/143003\/nowhere-mag-monocle-globalist-chic-survive-age-populism\" target=\"_blank\">Over the years,\u00a0<em>Monocle\u00a0<\/em>has become as much a status symbol as reading material<\/a>. Its editor is one of the world\u2019s foremost lifestyle auteurs, a tastemaker of late capitalism \u2026 While\u00a0<em>Monocle<\/em>\u00a0projects confidence in the march of globalization, it barely hints at the growing threats to the world of open borders and free-flowing capital it depicts. The magazine\u2019s globalist chic contrasts sharply with the nationalist movements in the United States and Europe \u2026 <em>Monocle<\/em>\u00a0views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives. Diversity is part of the vision\u2014the magazine\u2019s subjects are from all over the world, and its fashion models come in every skin color\u2014but this diversity is presented, in a vaguely colonialist way, more as a cool look to buy into than a tangible social ideal. Cities and countries are written up as commodities and investment opportunities rather than real places with intractable problems that require more than a subsidy to resolve.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s dwell on this globalism theme for a sec. <em>Topic<\/em>, a new website with whom <em>The Paris Review <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BT_26xyFOpE\/?taken-by=parisreview\" target=\"_blank\">has recently collaborated<\/a>, just launched their first issue, and it features a photo-essay from real-estate hell, where McMansions proliferate even as other homes are boarded up: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/there-goes-the-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo, California, was not Magnum photographer Carolyn Drake\u2019s first choice when she and her partner were contemplating a move from Athens, Georgia<\/a>. But for the past year and a half, Drake has been documenting life in her new home, a place on the verge of profound change. Less than a decade ago, the once-industrial North Bay city filed for bankruptcy. Now, as the tech industry has spread its tentacles across the Bay Area, Vallejo is\u00a0consistently\u00a0billed\u00a0as \u2018the\u00a0hottest real-estate market in the country\u2019\u00a0by numerous media outlets. It\u2019s an uneasy mix of boarded-up storefronts and glossy renovations, a place whose contradictions speak to national trends of urbanization and gentrification.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You know what they say: you can\u2019t put a price on human life. But what the hell, let\u2019s do it anyway. As Matthew Sedacca writes, government agencies do it all the time\u2014and tobacco companies, too. Guess which one values your life more? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/to-a-cigarette-maker-your-life-is-worth-about-10000\" target=\"_blank\">Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration\u00a0put a price on human life<\/a>: $9.1 million (in proposing stricter air-pollution regulations) and $7.9 million (in proposing new cigarette-warning labels), respectively \u2026 what it calls the \u2018value of a statistical life\u2019 \u2026 Imagine you and 99,999 people are asked how much you\u2019d be willing to pay to reduce your personal risk of dying in the next year \u2026 For a company like Philip Morris, the leading American cigarette and tobacco company, people\u2019s lives end up being worth just over a thousandth of what the FDA\u2019s value is. On average, one person will die for every one million cigarettes smoked. \u2018Cigarette companies make about a penny in profit for every cigarette sold, or about $10,000 for every million cigarettes purchased. Since there is one death for every million cigarettes sold (or smoked), a tobacco manufacturer will make about $10,000 for every death caused by their products \u2026 The value of a human life to a cigarette manufacturer is therefore about $10,000,\u2019 concluded Robert Proctor, a Stanford historian.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In his debut novel, <em>Golden Hill<\/em>, Francis Spufford turns to New York in 1746\u2014a fecund setting for a tale of early American morality. Laura Miller writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/07\/03\/golden-hill-a-crackerjack-novel-of-old-manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">The novel begins with the arrival of Richard Smith, a young man from England, in a city that is still more small town than metropolis<\/a>. Smith comes bearing a bill of exchange, drawn upon the debt of a local merchant, for the staggering sum of one thousand pounds sterling \u2026 He is the cosmopolitan; they are the strapping provincials. Surely, whether he is a wealthy man or an adventurer, he must be superior to these rubes in the arts of corruption \u2026 This, of course, turns out to be anything but the truth. A thief steals Smith\u2019s wallet on his first morning, vanishing into a maze of alleyways \u2026 After that, a drunken mob, mistaking Smith for a Papist, nearly kills him. Yet even these terrors do not constitute the city\u2019s true heart of darkness. Smith grimly observes that, while Manhattan\u2019s residents talk incessantly of \u2018liberty and virtue, virtue and liberty,\u2019 black men and women are led in shackles through its streets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s arts and culture news: the renaissance of the McMansion, the persistence of Monocle magazine, and 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