May 16, 2005

LV suburbs

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(photos Alex S MacLean)

Las Vegas burbs ... a vice on ecology, but a startlingly beautiful topography from the sky. In the photoessay here: "Las Vegas Gambles on Growth."

3 comments:

Robonosto said...

You may be interested in reading an excerpt from The Long Emergency and a Salon interview with the author.

minhthy said...

looking at these photographs gave me the chills.....




(i'm scared!)

Anonymous said...

so incrediably beautiful...in a haunting kind of way. this type of urbanism is so loved by americans, and it's shown so clearly by this pictography. then again...between this and the "new urbanism", i have problems choosing which might be worse long term.