My Recent Work on Time.com w/Help From the LFF

**shmoo** · 15-Mar-2009, 21:20

beautiful and devastating at the same time...great work!

**bulrich** · 16-Mar-2009, 10:13

Greg,
Great to hear your experience in MD. The sprawl issue is now a much bigger problem than we ever expected. Local and State govt went for the cash and were happy to sell land for commercial developers left and right. The promises of tax revenues and jobs were all it took for them to agree without any conditions.
Hopefully more people will get active and demand limits on the amount of retail space can be developed. Some communities are insisting that if a developer or retailer builds that they set aside a fund to clean up the site if it fails.

**Greg Blank** · 16-Mar-2009, 15:31

Brian;

I grew up in a rural patch of land between developments, I could at one point walk all day in any direction and not see another person. By the time I got through college only my grandparents 16 acre farm was left of that expanse. In 1929 My grandparents bought that 16 acres for 5,000 dollars. Had they had an additional
5,00 could have bought the two 100 acre farms adjacent to their land.

Later when my grand mother could no longer take care of herself and live on her own the farm was sold. The developers put 86 houses on 16 acres and I saw my grandmothers house burned down in a "fire training exercise".

Land use is a sore subject for me.

Thank you for responding.

Originally Posted by bulrich

Greg,
Great to hear your experience in MD. The sprawl issue is now a much bigger problem than we ever expected. Local and State govt went for the cash and were happy to sell land for commercial developers left and right. The promises of tax revenues and jobs were all it took for them to agree without any conditions.
Hopefully more people will get active and demand limits on the amount of retail space can be developed. Some communities are insisting that if a developer or retailer builds that they set aside a fund to clean up the site if it fails.

**bulrich** · 16-Mar-2009, 16:57

Greg, Very moving story. Certainly brings to mind many pictures.

And all they say is we only talk f-stops around here

**mccormickstudio** · 16-Mar-2009, 19:17

Brian - you know I like 'em. Congrats on the Time slideshow. Keep us posted on when they'll be in galleries/museums. Can't wait to see them all large.

**thechrisproject** · 21-Apr-2009, 10:35

I don't know if Brian's planning on announcing this, but I thought I'd add it in: Mr. Ulrich has been named a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Hot damn!

http://www.gf.org/news-events/List-o...es-and-Canada/