Architecture critic Mark Lamster: Your car, your house, your city, your favorite sport: welcome to the era of sameness.
The demand for SUVs is such that even sports car manufacturers like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche are building them. A Lamborghini SUV? It’s a contradiction in terms, but if you spend enough time at Highland Park Village, you’ll see one in the wild. Even Bentley manufactures one, never mind that the SUV might just be the defining symbol of middle-class conformity.
The SUV might be the most extreme, or at least the most glaring, example of creeping sameness, but that same evolutionary process is evident across our culture. Call it “The Flattening,” a gradual draining of character from just about every corner of our lives. Continue your drive to the suburbs and this aesthetic flattening is equally if not more acute. The cookie-cutter suburban development is not new — the form emerged in the postwar years, abetted by Federal housing and highway policies — but the scale and visual debasement of sprawl has accelerated dramatically.
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