Cookie cutter is the term I'm familiar with. When I was a kid we didn't have town homes, just row homes.
Growing up in the UK most houses were row type. The middle class got to live in semi detached houses. You had to be pretty well off to live in a detached house.
I used to go camping in Wales a lot. Wherever you went you would see row houses, like a dozen houses long. Even way out in the rural areas miles from anywhere. People just liked to cluster together. Saw a funny thing once. Tom Jones came from rural Wales. After he became famous and got money he bought a "mansion" in Wales. It was a converted old block of a dozen row houses sitting on a big block of land. Guess it made him feel at home.
