The bungalow grows out of Edward Bok’s Ladies’ Home Journal. It and Wright’s ranch both embody “a horizontal appearance that reflected the increase in the average size of a lot.” Bok’s reasoning for one-storiedness related to his belief that children should be kept close to the earth for positive moral development. (186)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)