Comments on: Suburbs of the Imagination

By: Louis U

Louis U — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:01:47 +0000

I love how the artist plans the “communities” from an aerial view. It exaggerates the actual planning process in suburban developments. I recently looked at a building and parking lot down the street from where I work only to see that it is designed from an aerial perspective. Here it is: From the ground you get a sense for the odd shape, but it never really makes sense. Of course, that can be said about much of suburbia, Columbia in particular.

Anyway, Ross Racine did a really great job. Cheers!

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:27:38 +0000

They look like corn mazes.

By: Rok Star

Rok Star — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:23:43 +0000

I can see my house from here………

By: Henderson

Henderson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:26:24 +0000

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,,,,,,ahhhhh.

Thanks. I needed that.

By: Amazing planning art « The Ryerson Association of Planning Students

Amazing planning art « The Ryerson Association of Planning Students — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:26:50 +0000

[...] planning art Our classmate Denis posted this to his facebook wall. I thought I’d share. Artist Ross Racine creates fictional suburbs. He [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:17:20 +0000

I agree with Trevor. Chestnut Gap is eerily realistic

By: tgrass

tgrass — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:07:53 +0000

I worked in a land development firm where the engineer who designed subdivision road layouts would write the names of his family with the streets.

By: re:place Magazine

re:place Magazine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:52:46 +0000

[...] Days [The New York Times] Pilot program to limit traffic on Market Street [San Francisco Chronicle] Suburbs of the Imagination [The Infrastructurist] A Tale of Two Rebuilding Efforts at Ground Zero [Architectural [...]

By: Katie Bee

Katie Bee — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:18:49 +0000

Why is it that the last one reminds me of Dante’s Inferno?

By: cm

cm — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:27:00 +0000

I love how Highland Farms mimics the swirling of water down a toilet bowl - a perfect description of many suburban communities.

By: (Pics) Artist Re-Imagines Suburbia - PSFK

(Pics) Artist Re-Imagines Suburbia - PSFK — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:49:10 +0000

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By: alancra

alancra — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:46:39 +0000

Highland Farms =’s Deltona Florida I spent a hour one day going one block. Was built as a retirement town and they didn’t want any young whipper snappers racing thru town waking them up at Four, in the afternoon.

By: whatthefuckiswrongwithyoupeople.org » Fear and Dreaming in the Suburbs

whatthefuckiswrongwithyoupeople.org » Fear and Dreaming in the Suburbs — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:58:58 +0000

[...] Imagine your future home nestled in the center of a giant spiral - or perhaps as the cherry on top of a giant sundae. That’s just what Ross Racine envisions in his imagined drawings. [...]

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:11:36 +0000

Suburbios de la imaginación…

Diseños ficticios de distribuciones de casas (suburbios), del artista Ross Racine totalmente surrealistas, pero plausibles a la vez, en el que demuestra la imaginación de este artista llevado a su exponente máximo en escala 1:1. Más información ww…

By: Walter Sobchak

Walter Sobchak — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:00:11 +0000

I can see places like Mapleglen and Greenfield Lakes populated with hundreds of similars houses in light pinks, blues, and greens, just like the town in “Edward Scissorhands”

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:53:06 +0000

Pretty sure I’ve been to New Foxtrot. It’s in Dallas, right?

By: Bob Krawczyk

Bob Krawczyk — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:28:46 +0000

Fabulous images from a ripe talent! None of them, clearly, seem liveable to me (but then, neither do existing suburbs and they continue on). But some of them are eerily beautiful. The grey of the images adds to their sterility and artificiality.

By: Infra Editor

Infra Editor — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:28:59 +0000

These suburbs might not be a fantasy for too much longer, especially if US town planners take a leaf out of Dubai’s book. Infrastructure in Dubai has long been admired and with projects such as Palm Islands, an artificial island complex, suburbs such as Rachine’s dont seem too ridiculous!

By: W. K. Lis

W. K. Lis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:41:10 +0000

The last photo (”Greenfield Lakes:”) is what pedestrians feel like trying to walk out of cul-de-sac subdivision, Roads that circle around and around, adding long distances to get out, when a straight road would have been preferred.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:41:56 +0000

@Catbus,

Do you remember that movie ‘Pleasentville’ with Spiderman in it? There was a scene where the girl was in a classroom learning the Geography of Pleasentville. Every road looped back to another road in the city.

Anyway, your comment kinda reminded me about that. That’s all.

By: Catbus

Catbus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:54:52 +0000

Yep. And what I noticed second was that there’s no way to get to it.

By: Adirondacker

Adirondacker — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:14:40 +0000

Has anyone else notice that Mapleglen looks like an ice cream sundae, complete with a cherry on top?

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:00:28 +0000

I don’t think you’re meant to want to live there. That’s the point.

New Foxtown looks so realistic, it’s depressing.

By: Irwin

Irwin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:30:36 +0000

Where is the beach and bluff in Beachview Bluffs? Actually, it looks very similar to Sao Paulo in real life.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:36:01 +0000

Pretty, but I’d hate to live there. (Any of those theres.)

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:25 +0000

This is why artists should not be urban planners.

By: Trev

Trev — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:59:07 +0000

I especially like Chestnut Gap (the second last one), only because it’s so scarily plausible. A little neighbourhood built around a big, ugly shopping mall, with nothing else around it. I’m sure any retail establishment would love to have such a captive audience.