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Why Every Main Street Looks the Same

Southern Urbanism

From neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, Main Street to Main Stroad, these stores are all the same. The set of incentives that drives this sameness is prevalent in every community in America. It’s the story of how our basic needs have become corporatized through scale & credit, zoned to transactionalism, and rendered profoundly anti-human at the expense of the small businesses and idiosyncratic development patterns that lend character, diversity, community, and meaning to our places.

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