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It's what cookie cutters do...they cut cookie dough into the exact same shape and size over and over. There can be additional elements that contribute to cookie-cutter housing, but the main characteristic would have to be indentical or limited exterior styles.
Cookie cutters from Michelle on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/breezer76/3293619438/ - broken link)
it is more than housing though. it goes into restaurants, nightlife, diversity, shopping, etc. Really anything that has to do with a persons daily lifestyle
So... This happens only in the 'burbs? Wow. NYC is soooo unique in that way. I guarantee the vast majority of suburbs either don't, or won't, look the same way after 50 years.
only happens in the burbs in many places. After 50 years all those other places may not look the same and may have character. Until then they look like boring cookie cutter areas.
People need to cut cookie cutter towns some slack. It's not their fault that they're a popular place to live and they grew fast so they needed a lot of new housing all at once.
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This isn't the 40s anymore. Those neighborhoods don't look like that. Those neighborhoods aren't the norm in CITIES. NYC never had neighborhoods looking like that anyways.
That picture is from the 1940s. A lot of the houses on Long Island look the same, but they've all been extended in their own ways. They aren't identical like they were int he 40s and 50s.
People need to cut cookie cutter towns some slack. It's not their fault that they're a popular place to live and they grew fast so they needed a lot of new housing all at once.
I am with JMT, the pictures he posted could have been taken anywhere.
There are entire towns which where you passed them you feel like you are going in circles: over and over again the same setups, the same houses.
What really amazes me is how some people refer to those towns / neighborhoods as beautiful.... It is like prasing a particular Mcdonald's fanchise for incredibly well tasting fries...
..but others are quite atractive, even if the housing pattern has little variation.
I believe that the reason these postwar developments became so popular is because they represented a chance to a home of one's own without having to share a wall ( or two) with someone else. Imagine a returning WWII vet seeking a better life, and being told that he could now purchase a "suburban" home, with a yard on all four sides, with multiple bedrooms and a driveway of your own...of course he would consider it, especially if he had grown up in a big-city apt building, or in a rowhouse with little personal space, or some other confining abode.
I actually enjoy old-fashioned Victorian neighborhoods, but I can certainly understand the appeal of the modern suburban home, especially if the neighborhood has been properly maintained.
I nominate Florida. Cookie cutter developments all the same color with same old, same old palm trees.
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Some of them are quite bland..
