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<title>Beautiful and Terrible: William Garnettâs Lakewood : Responses</title>
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<dc:date>2013-02-28T17:06:23-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Beautiful and Terrible: William Garnettâs Lakewood"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Thank you for bringing to our attention the aerial photos by William A. Garnett that document the rapid development of Lakewood, California. These photos are of great interest to me. They date from the time in which I was growing up only four miles away in Norwalk -- barely visible on the horizon in the last photo above. I have no great insights about the design theory that led to this form of development or its environmental sustainability.  But, in post-WWII LA, if one ignores the resulting profligacy and blandness of the product, the military precision that this form of development featured seems to have been a rational way to accommodate the "American Dream" of single-family homeownership that had been promoted to GIs during the war.]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2013-02-28T17:06:23-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Beautiful and Terrible: William Garnettâs Lakewood"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Wow, great article. I don't think that modernism was originally supposed to be about subordination. Look at Le Corbusier's paintings and early work--they tried to humanize this kind of mechanization of life--somehow it just all go away from them. <br />
But from an airplane the suburbs always resembles the same strategy of a cornfield--perfect geometries, separation of utilities, etc.   Disturbingly beautiful. When taken to its extreme it would probably look like the people harvesting fields in the Matrix. ]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/beautiful-and-terrible-william-garnetts-lakewood/37655/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2013-02-11T12:18:11-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Beautiful and Terrible: William Garnettâs Lakewood"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Nice article and to be sure there is something ambiguously and abstractly beautiful  about these photographs from the air, certainly subject to the interpretations noted in the piece. But the view from the ground is also always there and it tells, as Waldie knows best in Lakewood, a much more complex and intimate story of lives lived and a sense of place created. Much of the theory of suburbia, like these photographs is also beautiful and terrible, an abstract viewpoint from above that has an interpretive power but, is not able to touch the suburban ground, and all that aspiration and culture it contains.]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/beautiful-and-terrible-william-garnetts-lakewood/37655/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2013-02-06T01:57:45-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Beautiful and Terrible: William Garnettâs Lakewood"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a development like this is Michigan. It was built in a corn field, so there were few trees and where there were trees they were plowed down to make room for the houses which were very close together. Because all of the houses were the SAME DESIGN families painted their trim or front doors different colors to help children negotiate the identification of their own homes when they returned from school in the afternoon. There was, of course, no grass. However, one morning I went to school and when I returned home I found a new, fresh, front-lawn of Zoysia sod had been rolled out. We were the envy of the neighborhood. My family lived in the "Ford neighborhood." Two blocks over the "Chevy neighborhood" began and so on. Motor City was revving its engines and housing development took the road more traveled!]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/beautiful-and-terrible-william-garnetts-lakewood/37655/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2013-02-05T19:31:48-05:00</dc:date>
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