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Anonymization: The Global Proliferation of Urban Sprawl
Anonymization The Global Proliferation of Urban Sprawl Author:Alison Nordstrom, Bill McKibben, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Anette Baldauf All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles style urban sprawl?consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls, and large-scale masterplanned communities with golf courses?is being stamped onto the earth's topography. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself... more » to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted.German American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been photographing the spread of "L.A. style development" in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai, and South Korea.« less