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Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”

Overgrown building, DetroitBruce Sterling points to a couple of sites under the fetching title, The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier: some great pictures of Life in General re-colonising the post-industrial ruins of Detroit, and a blog in much the same vein (and in a neighbouring part of the world) called “carlsonmilliss on adaptive re-use”, but whose subtitle is the much snappier contemporary metamorphoses

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3 Responses to Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”

  1. Curtis says:

    The picture on this post reminds me of the house in the Bernard Rose film, “Paperhouse.”

    http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/3765/paperhouseck2.jpg

  2. Curtis says:

    Ah, well… that didn’t work. Here’s the url:

    http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3584/paperhouse.jpg

  3. pilgrim says:

    Looking again at this picture and the one you linked, in passing, much later, I’m also reminded of the house in Fight Club, and also the houses in Tidelands

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