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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Obviously, this is most pronounced on streets with chain outlets, and it doesn't take that many chain outlets before a street's sameness shoots up: "A relatively small number of repeated names is enough to make otherwise different streets resemble one another more."
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2026-08-12T09:51:05.838Z