Do we—Americans—accept that other people want to live differently than we do or keep trying to force “correct” culture and assimilation as the American Way?
I learned about spite houses yesterday. They’re on the never-ending list of things I learn daily from just being curious on the Internet—something I encourage you to do as well as you continue your exasperated knowledge journey. The entire idea of a “spite” construction is to irritate a neighboring or otherwise stakeholding landowner by blocking a view or otherwise useful characteristic of an existing structure.

There’s something here that can be just as equally applied to other parts of the built environment, and because of my interests, we’re going…
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