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Old Posted May 16, 2008, 2:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Radster View Post
Its also a lack of imagination by city planners and by the developers of these suburbs. Look at residential areas in our suburbs and compare them to what residential areas look like in Australian suburbs. Ours are cookie cutter homes, often very low density, in Australia they have architctural variety and higher densities.

By and large, you are right. Though the same cookie-cutter phenomenon is present in Australia as well, and large swaths of newer areas near Sydney and Melbourne look a lot like suburban Las Vegas or Phoenix.

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