Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey, British Columbia is a suburb of Vancouver and the second largest city in BC by population. This is a collection of gritty photos I took when I lived there in 2012, showing varied landscapes from suburban to agricultural to industrial. Urban blight is evident in many of the pictures, however, given that Surrey is more appropriately described as suburban, or even exurban, rather than urban, perhaps it should be called suburban blight. Surrey is a city of rapid population growth and development, including brownfield and greenfield (re)development. Most of these landscapes would look very different today, although it is less than 10 years later.