Should housing reflect the environment?

Developers only have so many templates they use to construct houses. If you're not shelling out mega$ on a house individually designed by an architect, you're probably going to have to settle for a pre-existing design, tweaked (but not seriously altered) by you. Aside from that most people suffer from a lack of true imagination or creativity, or else why would they live in tract housing designed and controlled (via covenants) by the builders? Even in unincorporated areas these developments suffer from a paucity of imagination. or originality (read character). Also remember that county planning commissions suffer from the same stultifying lack of imagination. They don't want any thing "too different" So when a developer builds the same tired, unimaginative, uncreative, unoriginal, inorganic, characterless designs, the elected officials, or their surrogates, jump on the design, and tweak whatever real character it had out of it. People are sheep. They buy into housing ociations, thinking that the ociation is there to protect property values, when in fact the ociations are puppets of the developers, who work furiously to stifle anything that doesn't look like the "ticky-tacky" that they've designed, en me for decades. It's crap, but people will buy crap. Remember pet rocks, and KISS albums?