.
Aerial view of housing developments near Markham, Ontario: photo by IDuke, November 2005
To want to be
like everybody else
in the tract
prevents development
of distinguishing
signs. A hair
out of place, a tooth
missing? -- no.
An infinite multiplication
of identical
units. But isn't the same
never any
more than
the same? An
infallible paradigm.
It's not so muchthe dismalnessof the burbs as the abstractimposition of a planupon the natural dis order of the world.
An infinite multiplicationof identicalunits.
Levittown, Pennsylvania, aerial view: photographer unknown, 1959 (National Archives and Records Administration)
Levittown, Long Island, aerial view: photo by Tony Linck, Life, June 1948
Levittown, Long Island, aerial view: photo by Tony Linck, Life, June 1948
Dallas skyline and suburbs: photo by Andreas Praefcke, October 2009
Housing development, San Jose, California: photo by Sean O'Flaherty, 24 May 2006
Tract housing near Union, Kentucky: photo by Derek Jensen, 20 June 2005
Suburban development in Colorado Springs, Colorado: photo by David Shankbone, March 2008
Reno, Nevada suburb: photo by Jonas Dovydenas for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 1973 (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Untitled 2524 (Daly City, California): photo by Todd Hido, 1999 (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)
Aerial view of International Avenue, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with the neighbourhoods of Albert Park, Forest Lawn, Penbrooke Meadows at the left and Dover Glen, Dover and Elliston Park at the right, Chestermere in the distance: photo by Qyd, 12 December 2006
Suburbs #2, North Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Edward Burtynsky, 2007 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Suburbs #3, with quarry, North Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Edward Burtynsky, 2007 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)
Suburbs #1, North Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Edward Burtynsky, 2007 (Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)