It seems like you want to live in another city. Part of what many people like about Houston is the lack of zoning. People tend to live close to where they work. The city doesn't really need a business area and a commercial area and a residential area.
What neighborhoods are you talking about? I don't see anything near the Brutalist style anywhere in the city. A lot of the older parts of Houston have those three story townhomes, but they all look pretty nice. A lot of the homes that those places are replacing were pretty rough.
LOL. Well call me a raging moderate but I feel like there's room between "Don't like it? Leave!" and HOAs and Historic Preservation Districts that require a committee meeting to allow an exterior color change. But many of the modern townhomes (and this is where you and I differ) are quite ugly to me and a massive downgrade from what they replaced. A home in "rough" condition can be renovated, but what's to be done once someone builds an ugly townhome?
What neighborhoods are you talking about? I don't see anything near the Brutalist style anywhere in the city. A lot of the older parts of Houston have those three story townhomes, but they all look pretty nice. A lot of the homes that those places are replacing were pretty rough.