US-POPULATION-DETROIT DECAY

11 maja 2013, | Kategorie: | Brak komentarzy

SHRINKING DETROIT HAS 12,000 ABANDONED HOMES
An abandoned building is part of Detroit’s urban decay 15 June, 2005. There are more than 12,000 abandoned homes in the Detroit area, a byproduct of decades of layoffs at the city’s auto plants and people leaving for the suburbs. And despite scores of attempts by government and civic leaders to set the city straight, the automobile capital of the world seems trapped in a vicious cycle of urban decay. Detroit has lost more than half its population since its heyday in the 1950’s. Detroit has become an icon of what’s considered urban decline, said June Thomas, a professor of urban and regional planning at Michigan State University. AFP PHOTO/JEFF HAYNES



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