While it might address the distended development of McMansions, it might also offer somewhat less-violent tools of acquisition and more safeguards against disenfranchisement in the margins of less-privileged informal settlements. Moreover, like construction industries, the heavy industry of subtracting development becomes a new market that produces jobs and profits. Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo-the hero of years of litigation against the oil companies-is on my plane back to Quito from Lago Agrio. Yet it is more fun to imagine the architect as a non-heroic, sly activist who is deliberately avoiding the righteous solution.