btracy

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2010

Rejecting the imperative of endless growth, Brett Tracy positions the human species at the beginning of its deindustrial phase. Using video and audio field recordings, Tracy reveals the glory and tragedy of a world built with phenomenal amounts of fossil energy and imagines the more human-scaled world to come.

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Bombay Beach, California. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bombay Beach, California

Bombay Beach

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Abandoned sugar silos in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

Permanently Closed

Santa Maria, California

Betteravia Sugar Plant

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Richmond Shipyards.

Richmond, California

Richmond Shipyards

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

San Francisco Naval Shipyard. (chrisd2006/Flickr)

San Francisco, California

Hunter's Point Shipyard

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Ventura Oil Refinery. (tunnelbug/Flickr)

Permanently Closed

Ventura, California

Ventura Oil Refinery

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Dixie Square Mall

Permanently Closed

Harvey, Illinois

Dixie Square Mall

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

ASARCO Mission Mine and Mineral Discovery Center

Sahuarita, Arizona

ASARCO Mission Mine and Mineral Discovery Center

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.