Fabricated Forms

Anthem, Henderson, Clark County, Nevada                            Christoph Gielen

Here they are ~ developers' dreams (ka-ching!) as seen from above and laid out in a book called Ciphers. We ground-dwellers rarely get to see the intricate designs carved out by suburban developments and the strange beauty of intricate freeway interchanges. They are oddly fascinating, if you can divorce yourself from mourning the nature that was displaced in their creation and wondering at the unsustainability of it all (slideshow): http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2014/04/14/the-beauty-of-the-burbs.html#3be7b565-fd31-4be0-9200-56d0f040d40b