vinyl village
n.— «There are so many barriers to producing good design solutions that the path of least resistance has led us to vinyl villages of franchised architecture surrounded by seas of asphalt.» —by Kenneth B. Hall, Gerald A. Porterfield Community By Design Mar. 12, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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