On 06/13/05 02:40 pm D. Gerasimatos tossed the following ingredients
into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

Well my point was that is not visibly pleasing. and detracts from the
feel of a neighborhood. In Detroit where there are tons of homes, they
always try to knock down a whole neighborhood at once and upgrade together.

I find it visibly unpleasing when all of the houses are the same, as in
tract homes. A neighborhood with lots of houses of differing sizes
and shapes enhances the feel of a neighborhood from my point of view.
I wouldn't point to Detroit as a model for redevelopment, by the way!

When I was growing up in England, if we saw rows of houses all the same
(except maybe for front doors of different colors), we knew what they
we "Council houses," i.e., public housing.

In Brisbane, Australia the Housing Commission houses (low-income rental,
with an option to purchase after a few years) were more varied in design
and in color of brick, tile and paint than most of the recent
"up-market" housing developments I've seen in the USA.

Perce