I'm sorry to see you get down voted, but I share your sentiments and agree that it was something that could be reasonably called a conspiracy. Unfortunately it

I'm sorry to see you get down voted, but I share your sentiments and agree that it was something that could be reasonably called a conspiracy. Unfortunately it has become part of the intellectual furniture of left-wing ideology, which makes a lot of otherwise perfectly nice people support extremely inhumane building patterns. Some books on the topic that I have read, if you haven't are: https://www.amazon.com/Bauhaus-Our-House-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0312429142 https://www.amazon.com/Bauhaus-Our-House-Tom-Wolfe/dp/031242... https://www.amazon.com/Old-Way-Seeing-Architecture-Magic/dp/0395605733/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477025600&sr=1-1&keywords=the+old+way+of+seeing https://www.amazon.com/Old-Way-Seeing-Architecture-Magic/dp/... https://www.amazon.com/Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Man-Made-Landscape/dp/0671888250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477025615&sr=1-1&keywords=the+geography+of+nowhere https://www.amazon.com/Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Man-Made-L... A funny side story: I realized I was some sort of reactionary my freshman year at Berkeley, when I was standing in the memorial glade, swinging my gaze back and forth between Doe Memorial Library and Evans Hall.