Abandoned street

Walking down a road surrounded by huge abandoned factory buildings in St. Petersburgs Red Triangle Factory Complex. This gives an idea of just how big the abandoned complex is.

cityscape/building, scene, script/utility created by Stonemason for Daz Studio or Poser.

I will always be apprehensive to post blighted urban scenes on this blog, particularly if it depicts residential disinvestment. First of all, I don’t want to exploit obvious signs of economic distress and poverty when it involves families, and photography can easily be very exploitative; secondly, even if my analyses attempt to deconstruct dire situations

While every post thus far on Local Architecture has dealt with urban decay as it is experienced in Cincinnati, a recent trip to Detroit put things into a perspective that had to be shared here. The study of abandonment must convene upon Detroit at one point or another. No other city in the United States has undergone such a dramatic level of population decline, abandonment, and urban decay over the past few decades. Detroit's infamous Michigan Central Station has been completely abandoned…

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