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Readers Respond: Is America Ugly?

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By Jackie Craven, About.com

New Urbanist thinker James Howard Kunstler wrote that America has become a "national automobile slum" with a landscape dominated by parking lots and highways. Do you agree? What's your vision for America's cities and towns?

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Ugly America

Yes, I'd have to agree, but I'd want to qualify it to say that most suburbs are ugly -- strip malls and boring houses, or worse, McMansions dominated by garages. Despite the beauty and diversity of the landscape, there's a dreadful sameness in contemporary America. There may be a few nods to traditional local building styles, but in general, you could scoop up a suburb in North Carolina and transport it to the suburbs of New York and it would fit right in.
—Guest Alice

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