there's nothing wrong with all the buildings looking the same. just paint some mural on the side. at street level you'll not really care about the buildings being the same, you'll be far more interested in having access to parks and services. not that having interesting buildings wouldn't help, but it depends on in what sense they are interesting. if it's some soulless jid architecture then that really isn't an improvement even if every building has a different degenerate geometric shape jutting out of it. that op pic is an example of degenerate jid architecture, but it's not the worst example. it looks acceptable.
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