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….The uninhabited street plan has become an abstract geoglyph—unintentional land art visible from airplanes—not a thriving community at all. This is inexplicably awesome — ‘walking’ around on Google Streetview as they suggest is also a nice creepy-Americana way to kill like seventeen seconds of your Monday morning.  [via bldgblg/contexts]

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….The uninhabited street plan has become an abstract geoglyph—unintentional land art visible from airplanes—not a thriving community at all.

This is inexplicably awesome — ‘walking’ around on Google Streetview as they suggest is also a nice creepy-Americana way to kill like seventeen seconds of your Monday morning.  [via bldgblg/contexts]

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