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Post-Bubble Landscapes
Dot Earth —
... in a world of shrinking newspaper revenue, but can’t resist posting on a disturbing photographic exploration of abandoned real estate projects published this weekend in ...
Ruins of the Second Guilded Age in the New York Times
TreeHugger —
The Times writes of this particular home: The developer of this abandoned model home, Michael Roberts, chief executive of Charlevoix Homes, intended to turn a 35-acre former alfalfa farm into a community of 92 luxury houses, with prices starting around $500,000. During the boom, Charlevoix Homes grew to 32 employees; it was recognized in 2006 by the state’s small-business association as one of the “50 Arizona Companies to Watch.” He is now bankrupt. More at the New York Times , via ...
Post-Bubble Landscapes
Peak Oil News —
... real estate projects published this weekend in The New York Times Magazine. The images were taken by the photographer Edgar Martins around the United States starting last fall. ...Are these portraits, perhaps, of the end of the age of unfettered consumption, simply a short pause before human communities resume their 150-years-and-counting fossil-fueled sprint, or a foretaste of Alan Weismans 2007 thought experiment, The World Without Us? NY Times Photo gallery is here
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