Citations:mansionization

Noun: "the practice of demolishing smaller, older houses in a neighbourhood and replacing them with new ones that occupy the maximum amount of lot space possible and dwarf surrounding dwellings"

 * 1989 — Santiago O'Donnell, "Glendale to Consider Limits on Behemoth Homes", Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1989:
 * Responding to complaints about what some residents are calling the "mansionization" of Glendale, Mayor Jerold Milner said Tuesday that he will recommend imposing size caps on single family homes at an upcoming City Council study session.
 * 1993 — Richard Sullivan, Driving & Discovering Oahu, Hawaii: Your Guide to Oahu's Deserted Beaches, Hidden Waterfalls, Hiking Trails and Uninhabited Hawaiian Islands, Montgomery Ewing Publishing (1993), ISBN 9780963682888, page 38:
 * Despite the mansionization in recent years, many beautiful smaller homes do remain, and even a few very modest plantation style cottages can still be seen here and there.
 * 1993 — Jennifer R. Wolch & Michael J. Dear, Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City, Jossey-Bass (1993), ISBN 9781555425647, page 68:
 * Areas dominated by such housing are long-established wealthy enclaves (such as Beverly Hills and San Marino), older hillside and canyon neighborhoods (such as Bel Air and the Hollywood hills), recycled areas undergoing mansionization, or new developments on the urban fringe.
 * 1995 — Dowell Myers & Jennifer R. Wolch, "The Polarization of Housing Status", in State of the Union: America in the 1990s (ed. Reynolds Farley), Russell Sage Foundation (1995), ISBN 0871542404, page 302:
 * Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of polarization is, on the one hand, the trend toward mansionization and "mega-homes," with spas, gyms, and tennis courts, witnessed in urban centers, and on the other, the burgeoning number of homeless people on the streets of American cities and towns.
 * 1996 — Dougls Coupland, Polaroids from the Dead, Regan Books (1996), ISBN 9780060391492, page 169:
 * On September 14, 1993, the Los Angeles City Council passed the Hillside Ordinance by an 11 to 2 vote preventing the "mansionization" or the creation of what is known in other cities as "monster houses" by land developers who, throughout the 1980s, would tear down smaller houses, carefully examine local building codes and then build the largest possible structure legally allowed on the same property.
 * 1999 — Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, Touchstone (1999), ISBN 0684827603, page 213:
 * He does not argue, as one radio host suggested, that "mansionization" is a public "problem," because people who build large houses in modest neighborhoods make the old timers feel uncomfortable.
 * 1999 — Ann Scheid Lund, Historic Pasadena: An Illustrated History, Historical Publishing Network (1999), ISBN 189361901X, page 98:
 * By the end of this period, many Pasadenans had had enough of demolition, tall buildings, "mansionization" and destruction of the historic downtown neighborhoods.
 * 2000 — Paul H. Tedesco, Dover, Arcadia Publishing (2000), ISBN 0738504246, page 8:
 * Mansionization has come again to Dover.
 * 2001 — Cathy Lang Ho & Raul A. Barreneche, House: American Houses for the New Century, Universe (2001), ISBN 9780789306319:
 * As neighborhoods struggle to stave off "mansionization," new residents find themselves living in overpriced tract houses.
 * 2003 — Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Lighthouse, Avon Books (2003), ISBN 0380813866, page 33:
 * "Mansionization," Faith said. "It's happening all over the country. Even in Aleford. Remember that sweet little Cape on River Street? Now it's a six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath Colonial on steroids, with great room, gym, home theater, and wine cellar."
 * 2003 — Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, Pantheon Books (2003), ISBN 9780375421280, page 236:
 * A cap on the mortgage subsidy would slow mansionization and teardowns.
 * 2004 — Armen Antonian & Lisa H. Iyer, The L.A. Sensation, Infinity Publishing (2004), ISBN 0741418096, page 71:
 * The mansionization of Beverley Hills was the logical outcome of the massive movement of wealth to L. A.'s Westside that by the 1980s had impacted the area like an economic sonic boom.
 * 2004 — W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond: A History, Oxford University Press (2004), ISBN 0195168410, page 333:
 * "Mansionization!" says Blanding, who broods on opportunities Condord has lost in the dozen years since he withdrew from the Walden Woods campaign.
 * 2004 — Robert Winter & Alexander Vertikoff, Craftsman Style, Harry N. Abrams (2004), ISBN 9780810943360, page 165:
 * Pasadena's Bungalow Heaven, in the northeast section of the city, was developed mostly before 1920 and except for a few intrusions is a remarkably coherent community, having somehow escaped the worst onslaughts of modern developers, freeway builders, and agents of mansionization.
 * 2005 — Bill Steen, Athena Swentzell Steen, & Wayne J. Bingham, Small Strawbale: Homes, Projects, & Designs, Gibbs Smith (2005), ISBN 1586855158, page 124:
 * We live in an age of "mansionization" and "starter castles" where the house has become a fortress to encase the family and protect it from the sterile and hostile environment that surrounds it.
 * 2005 — "Look Out: Bulldozer Ahead!", Time, 5 June 2005:
 * "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work."
 * 2006 — Shay Salomon, Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, Energy Efficient Possibilities, The Lyons Press (2006), ISBN 9781592288687, page 4:
 * Some have chosen to live together in communities where there's a cap on maximum house size, in an apartment building, or in historical neighborhoods where the lot size won't allow mansionization, so they know they won't be small relative to their close neighbors.
 * 2008 — Jon C. Teaford, The American Suburb: The Basics, Routledge (2008), ISBN 9780415951647, page 55:
 * This mansionization of Wellesley has stirred animosity among existing residents who fear that they might be priced out of the community and resent the outsized structures overshadowing their homes and destroying green space by covering too large a share of the lot.
 * 2010 — Shannan Rouss, Easy for You, Simon & Schuster (2010), ISBN 9781439148358, page 78:
 * "Mansionization is destroying our neighborhood."