Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A Disorienting Survey of Suburban Sprawl, from Dubai to L.A.


There’s something about the suburbs that seems to utterly repel and fascinate artists. The postwar burb-boom of Burbank, California, for example, was Tim Burton’s inspiration for the rows and rows of identical homes in Edward Scissorhands, while the Smashing Pumpkins offered a much less gracious view in their video for “1979,” which depicted the destructive teen-age boredom they tend to instill.

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