picture by David Shankbone
Were the suburbs ever sexy? From our mad dash towards sprawl, launched and subsidized since WWII by every level of government, it must have been. Now we're paying the price--from wet and wildlands paved over; social atomization of suburban living; oh, and global warming.This Boston Globe article looks the impetus higher gas prices might offer towards pushing folks back towards the cities. One hopes so. More efficient cars aren't going to help much if we keep driving farther and farther, converting all our green spaces into parking spaces.
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Hi - thanks for using my photo and giving me the credit. The suburbs were never sexy, they were predictable and ordered. Or they tried to be, until many of the same social ills--STDs, drugs, violence--started to show up there like it did in the inner cities.
Aesthetically, though, they were designed for "no surprises" and that, ultimately, is what makes the visual monotony harder to bear.
David
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