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Finally, I have to say that nerding out about patterns in the spread of newly constructed homes can be a little problematic, even though we’re absolutely thrilled with the project. Sometimes watching these things and marveling in their aesthetic qualities feels a bit like playing the fiddle while Rome burns—Hey, check out how fast the Great Plains are disappearing!. But as it turns out, when you show people how much energy they’re using, they tend to use less, and there’s no sense in turning our back on the world—so I hope that the project can serve multiple purposes. Hindsight isn’t anything like an environmental advocacy project, but if one effect that it has is to provide people with a less abstract picture of what housing development in the US really looks like, then that’s one more good thing to come out of the project.
