Mr. Zhang, the owner, grew up in the countryside thinks that both apartments and villas nowadays are too small in size.

Roman exploitation of the countryside is symbolized by the Villa Romana del Casale (in Sicily), the centre of the large estate upon which the rural economy of the Western Empire was based.

Wang illustrated the townhouses, which were commonly seen in the "new countryside" of China, to discuss about the irrationality of city planning and the monotonicity of Chinese architectural style.