EXPEDITION TO GEOGLYPHS OF NOWHERE
PLACES TO SEE.
Written by Elsa Brown: Just outside the suburbs about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, lies an intricate map of deteriorating streets etched lightly in the dirt. The area is called California City, and is all that remains of a late 1950s plan for suburban extension that was never completed. BLDGBLOG describes the under-realized and deteriorating grid as, a suburb abandoned in advance of itself, and, an abstract geoglyph—unintentional land art visible from airplanes. The blog has teamed up with Atlas Obscura for their event Obscura Day: An International Celebration of Curious Places, and is organizing an excursion into the halted development on March 20, 2010. Head over to BLDGBLOG to learn more about California City, and for details on how to participate.
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ATLAS OBSCURA
OBSCURA DAY: AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF CURIOUS PLACES
MVRDV’S WATER CUBE
ISTANBUL’S BESIKTAS FISH MARKET
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