Images of Christmas
Our ideal holidays and our zoning codes do not agree with each other
A year ago, I wrote this article for Christmas, on divining aspects of the American built environment through the lyrics of Christmas songs:
It is curious that while Americans of this era [the postwar era] were obsessed with boat-sized cars, talking dolls, electrical appliances, and suburban faux-homesteads, the Christmas music dating from the post-war y…