Ghost Town
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Feb. 12th, 2006 | 10:01 pm
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I've always liked pictures of places where nature or entropy is slowly reclaiming territory, and Varosha/Maras is one. A place that has been, as Bruce Sterling put it, "eaten by its houseplants."
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000985.html
http://groups.msn.com/ReturntoVaroshaFamagustaCyprus/shoebox.msnw
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/cyprus.html
http://www.cyprusincolour.com/image.browser.php?view=srch_view&search_string=maras
http://www.inhostage.com/gallery.html
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famagusta"Famagusta was occupied by the Turkish military during the invasion of the island by Turkey in 1974, in response to the Greek-backed coup. The Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled. Consequently, most of the then-modern part of the city, known as Varosha (Turkish: Maraş), was deserted, becoming a closed-off military zone, something which persists to this day. Varosha is often described as a "Ghost Town" as it has been frozen in time with department stores still full of clothes, now many years out of fashion and hotels still fully equipped."
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000985.html
http://groups.msn.com/ReturntoVaroshaFamagustaCyprus/shoebox.msnw
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/cyprus.html
http://www.cyprusincolour.com/image.browser.php?view=srch_view&search_string=maras
http://www.inhostage.com/gallery.html
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