Beautiful Panoramic Photos of… Suburban Sprawl
September 7th, 2006
The author calls his collection of panoramas, “suburban sprawl and other calamities,” but I’m curious whether everyone looking at these photos would see “calamity” captured therein.
I’ll admit — my first reaction was that some of these look like beautiful, safe places to live (some people who live there must have thought so) — and that it’s got to be debatable how bad all of this is.
To tie this back into the purpose of this site… I’ll pose the question, exactly what are the effects of sprawl from a user experience perspective? Do people choose to live there because there’s something positive about the experience, or do they see living there as a necessary evil? (And does it even matter if it’s not sustainable?)
LINK: Suburban Sprawl Panoramas (left side)
LINK: East Bay Sprawl Panoramas
Thanks for the link, Jess!
Entry Filed under: Transportation, Urban Design, Ambiguous Places
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1. jesse | September 8th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
I think our perception of sprawl can’t help but be shaped and defined by our early urban experiences. Having grown up in a dense, urban environment, these pictures bring to my mind a distinct set of feelings (alienation, fear, anomie) but I suspect not all would share those feelings.
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