1.   The new facility abuts tract homes and a defunct oil refinery.

2.   As the sun goes down, long shadows fall on the rows of modest tract homes and an unsettling mood invades this town.

3.   Beneath a dome of smogless blue sky, developers bulldozed the tumbleweed and Joshua trees, replacing them with tightly clustered tract homes.

4.   After the tribe found them jobs and built them dozens of new tract homes near where the casino stands, the settlement money was gone.

5.   But at Crane Ridge, the marketing was more akin to tract homes in that multiple properties were developed from scratch and delivered ready for construction.

6.   California home builders such as Mission Viejo in Southern California have rushed here to build entire cities of tract homes.

7.   Designed by Simon Puglisi Architects of Pismo Beach, the houses do not appear cramped and austere, but instead resemble conventional suburban tract homes.

8.   Emigres from the East settled this slice of New Jersey in New Mexico, where suburban tract homes contrast vividly with most of northern New Mexico.

9.   For Sue and Bentzi Gershon, the living room of their Valley Village tract home has become their battleground.

10.   Habitat you once relied on for foraging, shelter or mating is shorn of trees, growing a crop of soybeans or supporting tract homes.