World Without Us

I have started reading Alan Weisman's The World Without Us and wishing that I had taken the time to start it last semester when I was doing my urban decay studio project. His writing is clear, imaginative, and exactly what I had been dreaming about.

I also ran across these images by Andree Wallin on Pelfusion, which go hand in hand with the scenarios Weisman writes of: what would happen to our cities, parks, world if all humans just disappeared? Nature, as I suggested in my last project, would reclaim it, and do so quite quickly.


New York City would flood within a week.


Even our most substantial structures would start to break down.