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Compare that to some newer and more conventional sprawl.

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Close-up of houses in the above development.

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Here's where they shop. The little lake in this one is a neat little touch.

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And speaking of lakes, I became mildly obsessed with housing developments featuring lakes. There weren't really a lot of them, but they looked cool so I've included a disproportionate number of them in these pics.

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Close-up of houses in the above development. With palmetto trees.

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Another development along a lake.

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Typical newer suburban church.

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And still another development along a lake.

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No lake here. Really, really typical stuff that's had some time to mature.

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Beautiful, ain't it?

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There's factories in the sprawl, too.

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Bigger-lot stuff with more trees. At this point I think I started heading to the north suburbs. The ones prior to this were in the western suburbs.

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Office park.

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Typical older stuff.

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Lovely!

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Lots of trees. I *think* this was in "The Woodlands," or at least it was close by.

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Another lake.

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Close-up of houses just beyond the top-left of the above pic.


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McMansions along a lake.

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This was the mall at The Woodlands. Check out the little boat on the canal.

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This was also in The Woodlands. You can see they make some effort to save some trees. I suppose that's how The Woodlands lives up to its name.

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More from The Woodlands.

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I don't think this was in The Woodlands, but it had lots of trees anyway.

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Another mall.

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Looks hot and hazy. Let's go for a swim!

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More McMansions along another lake.

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Neighborhood shopping center. I think I started to venture to the eastern suburbs starting with this pic.

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Older stuff. With straight streets!

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Hmmm. This was definitely in the eastern areas.

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This was pretty close to the pic immediately above.

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Shopping center and apartments, with more apartments coming soon.


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More lakeside stuff. I *think* I might have ventured back over to the western suburbs with this pic.

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Here's what makes Houston go.

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Shot of the port, just for the heck of it.

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I think this was the only pic I got that was located south of downtown.

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Back to the freeway-scrapers.

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Located near some freeway-scrapers.

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More freeway-scrapers.

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Trees. And swimming pools.

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Plenty of room for more.

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Mass quantities of houses. Mass quanties of apartments. Mass quantities of cars. And even mass quantities of RV's.

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Mass quantities of freeway-scrapers, too.


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Not to mention mass quantities of trailer parks.

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My obsession with lakeside development continues.

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It's interesting to see how much they use concrete for parking lots and roads around Houston, and how relatively little they use asphalt.

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Some junkier, older stuff. Sprawl? Or not sprawl?

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The obligatory Wal-Mart.

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Strange-looking apartments. I guess I saw some of this in my LA thread, too.

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More lakes.

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And still another mall.

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I like the way so many of these developments in Houston and Dallas have community swimming pools and tennis courts.

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Church, shopping center, and houses. What more do you need?

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Yet another community swimming pool.

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