As much as we may want to believe that people are truly creative beings who appreciate the unconventional and revel in the revolutionary, the facts of modern life say otherwise, according to Lisa Rochon. “We’ve settled deeply into our La-Z-Boys and clicked on a lifetime of architectural reruns. It’s Tim Hortons, it’s Starbucks, it’s the Gap, it’s Home Depot, it’s tract housing and towers for as far as the land rolls on… To suggest that people are desperate for an alternative is to romanticize the reality.” Whose fault is it? Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but, um, Americans, actually, with our “development of ecologically sensitive land to exploit for the android architecture of the suburbs and big-box retailers which destroy the Mom and Pop stores of the downtown.”