Urban Fossil Value

Now that I'm back from traveling, and actually in possession of the cord that connects my camera to my computer, I've begun uploading photos from the Obscura Day California City expedition last weekend; you can check out the Flickr set here, as well as a larger Flick pool here and an even larger group of tagged photos here.

[Image: Somewhere inside the mazework of California City].

I'll be putting up a proper post about the day soon; for now, don't miss GOOD magazine's ruminations on the day's multiple, overlapping groups, walks, and car rides, including the future possible effects of expeditions like these, the growing list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and cultural preservation around the globe more broadly. California City as an indispensable site of world heritage? Its streets fossils of a real estate dream that never happened, perhaps the whole place should be preserved for some future museum of spatial ambitions gone wrong.