Subdivision Naming Contest

[Spartan]

Do they have a "Quinzee Street by da pahk?"

No, but they certainly have Da Pahk covered.
http://www.thevineyardnorman.com/main.html

[Bellaboo]

In Yukon, there really is a SMOKING OAKS..........like its burnt down...

[RadicalModerate]

Hell's Half Acres (m.o.l.)
Sprawling Estates
Creeking Springs
Diaphanous Downs
Condomonium Gardens
Burburling Swamps
Landslyde Village
FlavorTowne (Home of Guy Fieri)
Tobacco Rhodes
The Coops at FreeRange
The Cramptons

[FritterGirl]

Just put up a development downtown and call it "Urbanist Snobs" or "Hipster Park" and let them all move there.

Some of us, as much as we love downtown and appreciate the new urban areas under development, have valid reasons for living in the 'burbs, including in our aptly-named subdivisions. It doesn't make us boring people, it simply means we were looking for a specific lifestyle (newer home, lower price per square foot) than what is available in older, more historic districts.

Alas, as we choose not to conform to their confirmist views of urbanism, we shall always be the enemy outcasts.

[Just the facts]

Funny how urban is always associated with poor people who live in expensive housing.

When I lived in California everyone there thought Oklahoma was flat but populated by hillbillies. I always asked which was - flat or hills.

[dwellsokc]

Cookie Cutter Corner
Sprawl View
SUV Heights

Excellent!

Dallas Knock-Off Way
Kinkade Cottage Dreamworld
Excess Possessions Not Vehicles In Three Garages... Gardens

[Bill Robertson]

Just put up a development downtown and call it "Urbanist Snobs" or "Hipster Park" and let them all move there.

Some of us, as much as we love downtown and appreciate the new urban areas under development, have valid reasons for living in the 'burbs, including in our aptly-named subdivisions. It doesn't make us boring people, it simply means we were looking for a specific lifestyle (newer home, lower price per square foot) than what is available in older, more historic districts.

Alas, as we choose not to conform to their confirmist views of urbanism, we shall always be the enemy outcasts.

You go girl!

[RadicalModerate]

Just put up a development downtown and call it "Urbanist Snobs" or "Hipster Park" and let them all move there.

Some of us, as much as we love downtown and appreciate the new urban areas under development, have valid reasons for living in the 'burbs, including in our aptly-named subdivisions. It doesn't make us boring people, it simply means we were looking for a specific lifestyle (newer home, lower price per square foot) than what is available in older, more historic districts.

Alas, as we choose not to conform to their confirmist views of urbanism, we shall always be the enemy outcasts.

(or, perhaps . . . residents of . . ."
The Village of The Darned!

[kevinpate]

Just put up a development downtown and call it "Urbanist Snobs" or "Hipster Park" and let them all move there. ...

Nah, its urban so up, up, up they go ... Hipster Heights. Urbanists don't need no stinking parks (which may be why Occupy OKC had free reign so long. No one else used the park)

[Pete]

Excess Possessions Not Vehicles In Three Garages... Gardens

Hahaha this one of my biggest pet peeves... There are some subdivisions that are built around air strips and that each have their own airplane hangar and I bet most of them fill the hangar with a bunch of junk that they won't even have in their house then park their plane on the street.

The excesses of the American culture can be hard to fathom at times. Several of my neighbors have more cars than drivers; two of them have EIGHT and only three drivers.

[soonerguru]

I'm not kidding, but there is actually a subdivision in Moore called "Southwinds." If that's not an ominous reminder of F-5 destruction I don't know what is.

[soonerguru]

OOH. I love Hipster Heights. That would beat the hell out of SOSA, plus it's ironically, sneeringly self-referential!

[Snowman]

Hahaha this one of my biggest pet peeves... There are some subdivisions that are built around air strips and that each have their own airplane hangar and I bet most of them fill the hangar with a bunch of junk that they won't even have in their house then park their plane on the street.

The excesses of the American culture can be hard to fathom at times. Several of my neighbors have more cars than drivers; two of them have EIGHT and only three drivers.

It would not surprise me if they have a two/three car garage to fill with junk so the have room in the hanger, the pilots I have met are pretty obsessive about their own plane.

[Bill Robertson]

The excesses of the American culture can be hard to fathom at times. Several of my neighbors have more cars than drivers; two of them have EIGHT and only three drivers.

That would be me. We have three cars and a Harley. Two drivers. I like cars. If I had a 4th garage I'd get a project car to work on.

[RadicalModerate]

Hooterville.
(On account of the railroad tracks).

(Petticoat Junction is that Sports Bar halfway between Belle Isle and The Urban Core with easy access to The Interurban)

[Pete]

Just put up a development downtown and call it "Urbanist Snobs" or "Hipster Park" and let them all move there.

Some of us, as much as we love downtown and appreciate the new urban areas under development, have valid reasons for living in the 'burbs, including in our aptly-named subdivisions. It doesn't make us boring people, it simply means we were looking for a specific lifestyle (newer home, lower price per square foot) than what is available in older, more historic districts.

Alas, as we choose not to conform to their confirmist views of urbanism, we shall always be the enemy outcasts.

I've said many times that I don't fault people for where they live... And I've certainly spent a lot of time in the suburbs and every community needs them.

The criticism and commentary is aimed at (or should be) at the municipalities that allow completely un-checked sprawl and the developers that build to lousy standards.


This issue has come up several times here yet I've never seen anyone criticize someone's living choice.

[RadicalModerate]

I'm not kidding, but there is actually a subdivision in Moore called "Southwinds." If that's not an ominous reminder of F-5 destruction I don't know what is.

I did some framing and cornice work in an addition southeast of Crossroads Mall.
I seem to recall that The Developers decided to name it Windfield . . .
No more accurate description of the area could even be invented.
(20 mph wind, all day every day . . . and it was a field.)

[Bailey80]

In Southern California, all of the generic subdivisions have Spanish names that are some combination of the the words del, mar, rey, rancho, mission, playa, santa, vista, rancho, mesa, verde, margarita and bonita.

arrange these words in any order and you'll come up with the name of the housing development in Orange County, Calif.

mission vista del playa, rancho del rey, mesa bonita verde, mesa santa margarita del mar, etc.

Same idea here, but all the words are in English instead. Pines, Woods, estates Hills, hollows, shady, windy, meadows, brook, creek, whispering, etc. I think developers actually pay consultants to come up with these names and all they do is toss the same 10 words into a hat.

Shady Pine Creek Estates, Windy Woods Meadows, Whispering Brook Hills....

[CuatrodeMayo]

http://lewenberg.com/sng/

[Just the facts]

Let's not forget why developers create subdivision names in the first place. They do it to create a sense of place that the development itself is incapable of creating by simply existing. For example - Deep Deuce, Capitol Hill, and Midtown are parts of Oklahoma City while a subdivision called Knights Crossing is not. Even relativly new entities like Core to Shore and Film Row are able to be identified as real places eventhough little has actually even been built there.

[Just the facts]

Nah, its urban so up, up, up they go ... Hipster Heights. Urbanists don't need no stinking parks (which may be why Occupy OKC had free reign so long. No one else used the park)

I could go for MBG Tower. If we could duplicate something like Rittenhouse Square I would be as happy as a puppy with two peters - it's just to bad people with more influence decided a convention center would be better.

[kevinpate]

I could go for MBG Tower...

You might still have a shot at being a shotgun puppy. There is that nice chunk of land which Stage Center presently occupies. No my idea of a great idea, but I could see it happening.

[Maynard]

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights...

Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

[RadicalModerate]

Leafless Achres
Conumbdria
Whining Willows
Leakey Ravine Heights
The Pitts at Tumbleville

[mcca7596]

Thanks for the video Maynard. I like it.