{"id":1044,"date":"2009-03-26T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T02:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/03\/26\/scenes-from-a-recession\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T02:12:53","slug":"scenes-from-a-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/03\/26\/scenes-from-a-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"scenes from a recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some great pictures to be found here<\/a>, at The Big Picture<\/a>: abandoned subdivisions and building sites, landscapes of unused freight containers (#34) and disused newspaper racks (#30), and “Free Weekly Tours of Quality Foreclosed Homes, Prices Won’t Last!!!” (#9, from Las Vegas). There’s something Ed Burtynskyesque about them…<\/p>\n

On the topic of Ed Burtynsky: While the image quality is fairly poor when you blow it up to full-screen, Burtynsky’s TED Prize talk <\/a>has him bearing his environmentalist heart on his sleeve (including his connection to the enviro-optimists at Worldchanging.com<\/a>). Expect more on his photography and the work of other recent landscape-themed artists coming soon here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some great pictures to be found here, at The Big Picture: abandoned subdivisions and building sites, landscapes of unused freight containers (#34) and disused newspaper racks (#30), and “Free Weekly Tours of Quality Foreclosed Homes, Prices Won’t Last!!!” (#9, from Las Vegas). There’s something Ed Burtynskyesque about them… On the topic of Ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691215,689354],"tags":[4446,4447],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_postpolitics","category-image_nation","tag-eco-art","tag-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-gQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4530,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/06\/06\/the-state-of-higher-ed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1044,"position":0},"title":"The state of higher ed","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a good article by Tom Lutz on the state of declining education in this country. 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