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    Ross Racine Draws Fictional Suburbia

    New York artist Ross Racine creates aerial views of fictional suburbs. Amazingly enough, he doesn’t use source photographs or scanned images, instead drawing each piece freehand on the computer.

    All images courtesy of Ross Racine. Link to the artist’s website via SpaceInvading. You can purchase his pieces on 20×200. The Urban Times also has an interview with the artist here.

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    3 Responses to “Ross Racine Draws Fictional Suburbia”

    1. Tweets that mention Ross Racine Digitally Drawn Images of Fictional Suburbia | Magical Urbanism -- Topsy.com says:
      February 10, 2011 at 5:44 am

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    2. Kacper says:
      March 2, 2011 at 4:45 pm

      I know it was designed for fun and exercise, but there are places that are being built this way in the world. I recommend classic ‘City is not a tree’ by Christopher Alexander that explains the difference between artificial and organically-grown cities…

      BTW. This is one of the best urban planning, architectural blogs I have seen Mike. Congrats!

    3. Mike says:
      March 2, 2011 at 7:50 pm

      @Kacper! I’ll have to check out Christopher Alexander’s work. Thanks for your recommendation and support!

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