Reminder not to hate on the suburbs if you're trying to improve them. If you read Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere you'll appreciate this (and even if you didn't, if you grew up with strip malls or you work in urban planning).

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Home Sweet Strip Mall

The homogeneity of the suburbs has an upside: If strip malls and subdivisions remind you of home, you can feel nostalgic almost anywhere.

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