urbanism – landscape – ideas – theory – whimsy

Landscapes of Erasure: Nature vs Man

Whimsicality

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Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia – before and after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 (source: DigitalGlobe Inc. © all rights reserved)

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The Porta Farm settlement in Zimbabwe before and after Operation Murambatsvina (“Restore Order”) in which police evicted the entire population and bulldozed all structures (source: amnesty international – imagery: DigitalGlobe Inc. © all rights reserved)

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Greensburg, Kansas before and after the F5 tornado that swept through in May 2007 destroying 95% of the town (source: DigitalGlobe Inc. © all rights reserved)

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Before and after Israeli bombardment of a “hezbollah headquarters” aka a high density residential district in Beirut in July 2006 (source: amnesty international – imagery: DigitalGlobe Inc. © all rights reserved)

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Belgian village of Passchendaele before and after becoming part of a battlefield during the First World War (source: wikimedia.org – public domain)

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