America's Abandoned Cities Homeowner vacancy rates are rising in many cities, including Kansas City. ByABC News October 25, 2008, 3:33 AMJuly 25, 2009 -- The big news in Kansas City is the Chiefs' off-sea
We live in a constant cycle of abandonment and renewal, discarding the old for the new as we strive to build bigger and better facilities — erasing the past in our process. America's cities, towns and countryside are filled with empty, obsolete, and sometimes severely decaying buildings — ...
There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed ...
Street art has long surpassed mere trend to become an integral part of cities' cultural identities. What was once considered vandalism is now not only accepted but encouraged. The works of once-prosecuted artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey are now collector's items; murals can cost anywh...
Their empire spanned parts of Mexico and several countries in Central America.People long believed that the May a were still just hunter-gatherers. But the new findings showed that they were already busy creating cities in the world history at the time, CNN reported.They did all this in a ...
a few visionary residents saw an opportunity in this neglected space and advocated to transform it into a public green space for the community. The success of the project seemed to spark a "High Line Effect", inspiring other American cities to pursue civic infrastructure on outdated railways, ro...
Whether you're a thrill-seeker chasing adrenaline, a photographer hunting for surreal backdrops, or a history enthusiast fascinated by forgotten stories, our mission is to help you discover the hidden side of cities worldwide. We uncover the lost, the decaying, and the overlooked from abandoned ...
Most abandoned wells are in rural areas like Wight’s, but a surprising number can be found buried beneath America’s cities. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in Los Angeles. Built atop one of the nation’s oldest and most productive oil fields, thousands of abandon...
there are noplant species, which are necessary for succession processes, around the abandoned agricultural land or in the soil seed bank. View chapter Review article How can wastelands promote biodiversity in cities? A review Landscape and Urban PlanningJournal2014,Landscape and Urban Planning ...
in the halls.”The transition was swift. By 1961, Sea View’s pavilions were practically emptied as patients miraculously recovered as a result of the new therapies. Today, a long-term care facility operates in several of the buildings and some structures have been repurposed by community ...