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Escalante

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Image source: Levittown Diary.

This is Levittown, a new town built on Long Island in the United States in the late 40s and the 50s of last century.

In a way, it’s the archetypal small town. What made it possible – and cheap – is it’s the first use of assembly line processes in producing houses. The materials were cheap, the labour unskilled. But the design was good.

This is an aerial view.

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October 08, 2009

Escalante opened Web Directions South in Sydney, October 2009, and hikes through fanufacture, science fiction, social capital, cybernetics, and Neptune.

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