a dead bird, literally
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bravo as always.
i just cannot tell you how much i look forward to doady's photo threads. 100% j.g. ballard dystopia approved! :cheers: https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/...JG-Ballard.jpg |
So Mississauga has (or until recently had) farmland, still? Wouldn't have guessed that.
I know Canadian suburbia is much more sane and sustainable than in the States, but on average, it's even uglier, if that's possible. GTA burbs are mostly pretty grim. The huge arterials with the power lines and the Dallas-style fenced housing developments, but even more packed-in. |
The sign says it all; "A change has been proposed for these lands". The atmosphere reminds me of liminal space photography, in this case an undefined reality traversed and populated mostly with infrastructure, somewhere between suburban and rural. Great thread. :tup:
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Here is some farmland in the City of Toronto: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8480...7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8395...7i16384!8i8192 Quote:
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A transect of the unfortunate, complete with a dead bird...
Anywhere from Omaha to South Carolina and it all has that same 'this was once really pleasant farmland' feel... ...as the peeps in their Explorers and Pathfinders drive by at 100kph thinking 'why is this guy out here with a camera...' Great thread... |
looks midwestern, the straight roads
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Yeah, you're probably right.
Those neighborhoods are just weird, from a U.S. perspective. There are U.S. sprawl neighborhoods with that kind of density, but they're lower-end. |
Surprised there isn't more construction along 9th Line yet, it's a very strange space.
Essentially the 9th Line lands are those that are between said roadway and the 407 tollway, and currently undeveloped: https://goo.gl/maps/Z2J1eA9S7YW1NMEm8 Originally the lands belonged to Halton Region / Town of Milton as 9th Line was the dividing line between Halton and Peel Regions. When the 407 was constructed this left an odd vestigal space between the 407 and edge of Mississauga's urban area that didn't make a whole lot of sense. At the same time Halton Region didn't have much interest in developing them as they were focusing on their own growth areas, largely centred around Milton and the Uptown Oakville development area. So a lonnngggg and drawn out process to transfer the lands was undertaken with handover in 2010. Development is tricky as generally speaking lands fronting 400 series highways are reserved for employment uses (industrial/office parks), and the area also has to accommodate space for the future 407 transitway. So there's not actually a whole lot of developable land and the City/Region wants to make the most of what's there, which means no tract subdivisions. Interactive concept map can be found here: https://mississauga.maps.arcgis.com/...5bde061bff7636 |
Wasn't it originally part of the Parkway Belt Plan as well (an old 1960's planning document meant to preserve a corridor around the GTA for infrastructure such has hydro lines and a highway which eventually became the 407). It took a while to get released from that as well.
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Interesting shots. My in-laws live nearby just off of 10th line, so I am in the area quite often.
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^ I remember you mentioned your connection to the area in the Central Erin Mills thread too. Ninth Line might be a bit out of the way for me but it seemed important to show it as some sort of dividing line while I still can. I was actually planning a larger thread, also including photographs of the portion of the Ninth Line corridor south of Britannia, closer to Erin Mills Town Centre, but after recent travelling through there, I realized it was too late, that part of the corridor not so much "liminal space" anymore, so I didn't photograph it. These photos just show the portion of the corridor north of Britannia.
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Although I must admit, even though Joy Division is my favourite band, and their song "Atrocity Exhibition" is a reference to J.G. Ballard, I didn't have him mind when I was taking these photos. I didn't know about liminal space photography either. I probably was thinking more about David Plowden, whose book Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie I bought a couple of years ago and I even revisited again while editing these photos. He photographed a lot of the Great Plains of the US and the disappearing rural landscape. You can see his work here: https://www.davidplowden.com/photographs |
^ You mentioned liminal space, as I did. The first time I'd heard of the concept I thought it was nonsense because I was only hearing it presented as an abstraction, but not visually. I then thought of it as interstitial space (architectural) in a building, but liminal is different, usually a transition from what was, to what will be; this can create some uncomfortable and eerie feelings, perhaps with a form of tension, suspense, or foreboding, present in the photograph.
I really like the following video, it's fun and explains this photographer's version of it: |
#28 almost looks like an alien saucer landed there.
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