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January 26, 2006
Ritter Ranch in Palmdale: The Bulldozing of California Goes On
Google's satellite photos shows the massive bulldozing of California's beautiful foothills for the building of thousands of homes in the Antelope Valley as part of the Ritter Ranch housing development.
Click image for an enlargement. Or view the nearby Anaverde development on Google Maps (scroll west to see Ritter Ranch).
Here comes traffic, chain stores, people living their lives in gigantically wasteful homes filled with the debt-financed trappings of advertiser-driven middle class life. The future residents will likely be Republicans despite the party leadership's abuse of their demographic; Christians in name only; and disconnected from and suspicious of one another and especially of The Urban Other — anything and anyone from “down below” in Los Angeles. Oh, it's gonna be a great life.
Below: future homesite, circa 1994, on Quartz Hill in the Antelope Valley.
Below: a 2004 view of the Pelona Vista foothills with a small sampling of the discards that are frequently dumped there, near the site of Ritter Ranch in the Antelope Valley, California.
As a wise man once wrote, “Farewell, promised land.
January 26, 2006 in Antelope Valley, California // Southern | Permalink
Comments
Sure it's not a enjoyable spot to live in¡.
You should notice here in Spain more than 500,000 houses have been built last year, and it's the second country in the world (first is Ireland) where house prices have raised the most. More than Italy, Germany and France together (and note that IT+DE+FR is about 60+80+60 million pop= 200; and Spain is just 45,000,000).
Posted by: Dan | Feb 6, 2006 3:59:39 PM
The Google Maps image that you have posted is not of Ritter Ranch, but is of Anaverde.
Check out www.anaverde.net
Posted by: Scott | Feb 14, 2006 12:33:01 AM
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