Sad, True, Sad. Follow the link. We can do something though.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/us/20071223_LAND_FEATURE/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/20/us/20071223_LAND_FEATURE.html

The previous links make me sad.  We have lost all aesthetics and individuallity and now you see it all over the world.  Gaps on every corner in Paris and London.  McDonalds everywhere. Popeyes Chicken covering South Korea.....

Worse still, does every new shopping center and subdivision have to be built in faux craftsman?  I bet Frank Lloyd Wright is turning in his grave.

So what can we do about it?  Think about it and then act.  Be different today.