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communities':    Jon -- I recommend "Last Harvest: From Corn
Field to New Town," Wytold Rhybczynski's readable history of
real estate development. It's an east coast history, of course
-- Rhybczynski is at Wharton and isn't that the only place that
matters? But it's intersting to learn how the industry got its
start.  You are right about the social, soulful impacts of the
MP community (I am less aware of the impact on government, but
I'm going to learn more). The walls and fortress-front houses
create a level of isolation that can eventually take its toll on
families and individuals. Other institutions -- schools,
churches -- are left to close the gap. People patch together
"custom" communities made up of a few friends from here and
there : Little League teams, church, Scouts, etc. (This has been
my life, anyway). When circum