Photographing Urban Sprawl

A National Geographic photographer summarizes her thoughts in writing about sprawl in the U.S.

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June 26, 2001, 7:00 AM PDT

How to you capture images of the American Dream and urban sprawl? This was the challenge for National Geographic photographer Sarah Leen in taking photographs for the magazine's in-depth feature on urban sprawl. The worst part of the assignment: "It was hard to see farms and woods bulldozed and graded to a frying-pan flatness to accommodate the building of more and more houses and shopping malls."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: On Assignment: In the Burbs

Friday, June 22, 2001 in National Geographic

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