Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point

is the title of a book of aerial photographs by Alex MacLean, which was reviewed by Hervé Kempf of the Le Monde Book Review, and reprinted by Truthout here, "The Late American Space." From the review:

And while one may look at his images for themselves, as the oeuvre they constitute because they are always beautiful and intriguing, they also document in a striking manner the waste of space and resources on which the world's richest society is based. MacLean takes responsibility for this demonstrative bias. He has organized his book according to several explicit themes (atmosphere, way of life, automobile dependence, water use, city planning), introduced by short texts that propose an environmental reading of the photographs.

MacLean "describes for us, with neither animosity nor complacency, how America has changed in a generation, spreading everywhere the tentacles of a life based on the car, which ends up eating space even as it isolates human beings." (Photo: Alex MacLean)