In this dehumanizing, auto-dominated, market-research-driven age of faltering standards of service and aesthetics, our urban and suburban landscapes are becoming more homogenized and worse.
What character their history and ecology might offer is being strip-mined to make way for anonymous residential projects, monolithic office towers, climate-controlled retail complexes of questionable design and awkward transportation systems — all in the abused name of progress.
We are talking here of the march of mini-malls and 'McMansions.'
—Sam Hall Kaplan, "Search for Environmental View of Design," The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1990
