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Why is this field of houses in the middle of nowhere? This is just the kind of question that Alex MacLean wants us to ask. MacLean has flown a light plane over much of the US documenting changes to the environment caused by both people and nature. “My photographs are environmental puzzles: the viewer has to decipher what is going on,” he says.

This is an “exurban” residential development: one that that sits beyond the normal suburbs of a city, in this case South Jordan in Utah. MacLean – a pilot, architect and renowned aerial photographer – spotted this place when he was taking pictures for a project looking at housing density…