California has a long history of real estate boom-bust cycles. In the mid 60's developers bought desert property, built a lake and Lake Los Angeles was born. My childhood memories of it are connected to the Los Angeles Underground newspaper - a short-lived project of my father's - and the investigative reporting that got his car shot up one night. Now it's a struggling collection of homes, small businesses and movie sets.
What's interesting to me is how we subdivide space in the desert...creating ownership next to abandonment.
