Like the Malvina Reynolds song suggests, here are 'little boxes,' although these aren't so 'little' and they don't even vary in color from green to pink. Many of these boxes are stacked on top of boxes for their metal commuting boxes (cars). This is an example of the 'townhouse' developments that have popped up that lack the town. Plenty of 'houses' and no 'town.' The homogeneity is suggested in the picture of similar looking 'townhouses' with identical satellite dishes protruding from the porches. This enclave of boxes is, of course, ringed by various kinds of fences. One mustn't have unwanted guests. A circle or triangle might get in.
That you're using these row houses as an example of mass-produced suburbs raises question for me about the similarities and differences between the production of suburbia today and fifty years ago. Does this place (where is it, by the way?) have the same feeling you imagine Lakewood having in the 1950s?
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