Strip Mall
2011

The commerical strips that seem to flank every major urban road are a signature marker of modern America. Not so much in the older and more crowded North East but in the newer towns and cheaper land of the South, Midwest and West, the concrete and tarmac forecourts of windowed warehouses take the land for 100 to 500 feet back on both sides of every city artery. At their pristine best these landscapes are homogenous, characterless, interchangeable and anonymous. Without their signs and skin deep plaster facades we could not tell one store from another or a restaurant from a movie theatre. Without their bottomless supplies of cheap goods and services we would have no motive to go near them.



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