Big-box stores are not exactly attractive – hence their name. If they continue their explosive growth over the next 20 years, will Americans someday come to regard their proliferation as a spectacular example of the failure to adopt region-wide blueprints for balanced growth?
是的，在某种程度上而言这的确是进步的代价。但是审美和社区的丧失并非可以轻而易举地用简单的收入和价格统计来加以俘获。巨型商店并非引人入胜，因此口碑也是如此。如果在未来20年中继续爆炸式的增长，美国人是否会在某一天把它们的扩散视为未能采纳地区性平衡增长的巨大失败的例子呢？