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Aerial view of a 1950s Levittown, New York housing development, showing rows of identical single-family homes with small yards and grid-like streets.

Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton sit on a garden bench, engaged in conversation, in a scene from the film Ordinary People (1980).

Aerial view of a sprawling suburban neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, showing rows of houses with similar rooftops, curved streets, and landscaped yards.

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