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On Geoglyphs

From BLDG BLOG:

In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself-the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now are a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel, like some peculiarly American response to theNazca Lines (or even the labyrinth at Chartres cathedral).Bill & Ted meet Cerne Abbas Man.

Google Street View gives you a good view of this somewhat unfortunate art form. In light of the recent economic conditions you wonder how many more of these there are. The waste in terms of labor and money as well as the environment has to be staggering.