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- In Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs, foreclosures and blight have created an environment of opportunity amid decline. [1 of 3]
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today’s Very Short List:
culture 21 Aug 2012
by Matthew Newton, who publishes the journal Annals of Americus and is currently at work on No Place for Disgrace, a series of nonfiction stories that examine the diminishing promise of the American suburbs.
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- See also Ciphers, Christoph Gielen’s aerial photographs of suburban housing plans, which reveal the labyrinth-like design of U.S. sprawl. [2 of 3]
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- “They have realized the American dream,” Bill Owens wrote in Suburbia, his 1973 book documenting the suburbanites of Livermore, California. [3 of 3]
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- Images (in order): photo by Matt Straud; photo by Christoph Gielen; photo by Bill Owens.
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