Buying the Farm, Building a Subdivision – NYTimes.com

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Buying the Farm, Building a Subdivision

A quick assignment on a farm turned into a two-decade look at what happened when developers transformed the farmland into a suburban subdivision.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/buying-the-farm-building-a-subdivision/

Scott Strazzante thought he had a quick newspaper assignment photographing a farm in suburban Chicago. Instead, he spent the next 20 years documenting life there and on the suburban subdivision that replaced it.