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“The model for many of these developments is Prairie Crossing, a community built around a 100-acre organic farm in Grayslake, Ill., north of Chicago. When it was launched in 1992, the concept was so novel that Prairie Crossing didn’t need a marketing budget; it coasted on free publicity generated by reporters who came to see this strange new suburb. In recent years, Prairie Crossing has morphed from oddity to inspiration. Its developers have fielded so many queries from firms considering similar projects that they organized a two-day seminar last fall.” 
“How strange, though, and deeply ironic would it be for a photographic project ostensibly intended to show us how off-kilter our built environment has become—Gielen writes that “he hopes to trigger a reevaluation of our built environment, to ask: What kind of development can be considered sustainable?”—to reveal that the suburbs are, in a sense, intensely original settlement patterns tiled over the landscape in ways our species could never have anticipated? We are living amidst geometry, post-terrestrial screens between ourselves and the planet we walk upon.” (via BLDGBLOG: Species of Spaces) Greenlight for Midtown (via nycdot) 
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