Playing With / Cut-and-Paste Suburb

• Basic Trope: All the houses in Suburbia look almost or exactly alike.
• Straight: All the houses in Burbville are 3-bed-2-bath ranch-style houses, all painted either white, pastel colors, or beige.
• Exaggerated: All the houses in Burbville are 3-bed-2-bath ranch style houses, all painted beige with dark green shutters on the windows. And they all have the exact same gardens and lawn decor.
• Downplayed: Of the terrace houses in Burbville, there are a number of ground rules: they include minimum and maximum building height, land coverage/footprint, location of open space, setback distance, but the owners are otherwise allowed to built whatever suited their lifestyle. While the area seen from a helicopter above looks like a coherent whole, each building in themselves have variety.
• Justified:
  • Burbville is a condo complex, or townhouse complex, or some other such housing development, with the houses/condos/townhomes all manufactured by the same company.
  • Burbville has a homeowners' association that strictly controls what the exteriors of the homes and their associated lawns and gardens look like.
  • Burbville is a planned community for the workers at Trope Co. Inc, and their families.
  • Burbville is a planned community instigated by government, that was developed according to strict regulations mandating the size and type of housing, as well as what residents may do with their homes once inhabited.
  • Burbville is being developed all at once due to a massive influx of new homeowners and getting the houses up as quickly as possible via mass production of the pieces is more important than allowing customization.
• Inverted: Burbville is a mix of ranches, split-levels, colonials, plantation-style homes, capes, farmhouses, and more, in every shape, size, and color imaginable.
  • Burbville is a chaotic urban or suburban planner's worst nightmare with such nonsensical contradictions as skyscrappers next to dirt roads with ranch house neighbors, seven lane highways next to farmers fields surrounded by nothing, all buildings palleted with clashing colors which look like they were randomly chosen. If not for the lack of blatant physics violations it would appear to be the domain of a Mad God.
• Subverted:
  • Some of the homes in Burbville have 2 bedrooms, some have 3 bedrooms, and some have 4 bedrooms.
  • Burbville has some different styles of home.
  • The interiors of the houses reflect each unique family living inside.
  • Burbville is a more urban setting, with apartments and multi-family homes.
• Double Subverted:
  • They all look the same on the outside.
  • They're all the same beige color.
  • The outside is all the same.
  • All the apartments and multi-family homes resemble one another. And the homes on Maple St. are exactly the same as the ones on Birch St.
• Parodied:
  • The buildings of Burbville consist of "copy and paste", over and over and over again.
  • The exteriors of the homes all look the same, the floor plans are all the same, the interior decor is all the same, and the families living in them are all the same.
  • Residents of Burbville regularly wander into each others' homes by mistake, since they have no way of telling thme apart from the outside. Particularly unobservant people have been sleeping in other families' houses for days without noticing.
• Zig Zagged: Burbville's architecture varies through the ages as it passes through waves of mass-development and redevelopment.
• Averted:
  • All the homes in Burbville are different.
  • The work takes place in a major city center, or out in a rural area.
• Enforced:
  • Standardized Sitcom Housing
  • Truth in Television if the show is being filmed in such a planned community like Celebration, Florida.
  • "Let's give our suburb an Uncanny Valley feel to it, by making all the homes exactly the same, to show that Burbville is a kind of Stepford Suburbia."
• Lampshaded: "All these houses look the same."
• Invoked: A real-estate developer wants to save time, space, and money by making a planned community with the same 3 or 4 floor plans, and the same exterior.
• Exploited: Alice and Charlie are pursuing Big Bad Bob:
  Alice (over radio): Charlie, I got him on video! He ran into one of the houses!
  Charlie: Which house?
  Alice: Uh...ranch-style, beige, got an attached garage with a white hatchback in the driveway.
  Charlie: That's literally every house in this block!
• Defied: The developer lets people buy the land and build whatever kind of homes they like on it.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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