{"id":5382,"date":"2013-09-16T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2013-09-16T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:54:23","slug":"the-economic-collapse-seen-through-aerial-photos-of-abandoned-mansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"The economic collapse seen through aerial photos of abandoned mansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2013\/09\/michael-light-aerial-photos?mbid=social11892544\">Lyra Kilston<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Light often snaps his photos from a two-seater plane \u2014 at a bumpy 70 mph \u2014 that he pilots himself at the same time, but you\u2019d never know it from his well-composed aerial shots. From swimming-pooled suburbs in Phoenix to razed hills awaiting their luxury homes in Nevada, Light has been documenting the western U.S.\u2019s unique topography from the air for the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>In his series on Black Mountain, Nevada, Light\u2019s photos put viewers in the plane with him as he glides over 640 acres of dynamite-flattened hilltops, carved through with pristine roads and cul de sacs linking graded house foundations. But there are no houses. No lawns, no pools, no sidewalks. No guard-staffed gates. This is the site of the Ascaya luxury housing development, which has lain dormant since the economic crash of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce they get built, it\u2019s hard to un-build them,\u201d says Light. From the air the sculpted earth reads like a strange code cut into the brown hills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyra Kilston: Michael Light often snaps his photos from a two-seater plane \u2014 at a bumpy 70 mph \u2014 that he pilots himself at the same time, but you\u2019d never know it from his well-composed aerial shots. From swimming-pooled suburbs in Phoenix to razed hills awaiting their luxury homes in Nevada, Light has been documenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}