suburban sprawl panoramas

“‘We have invested all our wealth in a living arrangement with no future,’ said James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency which postulates the end of suburbia. ‘In building suburbia we embarked on the greatest misallocation of wealth in the history of the world.’”

Palmdale, California, 2005

San Ramon, California, 2004

San Ramon, California, 2006

Clayton, California

Santa Clarita, California

Valencia, California

Antioch, California 2004

Antioch, California 2006

Photography by Matt Jalbert

Documenting the insanity of suburban development is more important to me than making seamless panoramas. The former is epic; the latter, piddling.

Hunter’s Point, San Francisco, California, 2008

Auto wrecking yard after wildfire, Devore, California

Aftermath of flash flood, Devore, California, 2004

The San Gabriel Mountains from Glendora Ridge Road

The dockyards near 22nd Street, San Francisco

San Francisco from Potrero Hill

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Seen in:

Greenbelt Alliance publications
The Unforeseen — a documentary film
the Los Angeles Conservancy magazine
the San Francisco Chronicle
various academic and professional journals
various museum publications
Reader’s Digest
Style 1900 magazine
a magazine in Japan you never heard of
the Schmap San Francisco Guide
Old House Journal magazine
The Pinky Show
GQ magazine

Exhibited:

2007.02.05: San Francisco ~ Club Mezzanine, Writer’s Grotto

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East Bay sprawl

Death Valley & wildflowers

The Gamble House, Pasadena, California

Central California