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If you look at a map at the "proper" scale, you will realize that it is really just a repeated set of streets, truly cookie cutter as you say.

Look at the curved roads which go between major streets - they all curve roughly the same way, and feed into the residential areas on the same pattern.

The first thing they do in any suburban construction in Mississauga is scrape the terrain flat, then add in artful hills and curves as dictated by the blueprints, not as nature had them. The end result is this homogeneous, entirely manufactured landscape.

The roads in Mississauga were designed to handle traffic twenty years in the future. Unfortunately they were built in the 1970s and are now feeling the strain.

It sounds like Emeryville in the Bay Area.

it's a joyless wasteland of big box stores and cookie cutter urban development

Fair enough. But one man's joyless wasteland is another man's cheerful paradise.

There's no accounting for taste. At least, I hope not.