Depends on the design/typology. Uniform rowhouses can often look very beautiful--take any number of streets in Brooklyn Heights, or the newer projects by Peter

Depends on the design/typology. Uniform rowhouses can often look very beautiful--take any number of streets in Brooklyn Heights, or the newer projects by Peter Barber in London. It's not "repetition" as a general principle that's unappealing, it's the particular execution that's so common in cheap sprawl developments.