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Whenever I'm passing though a rough neighborhood in places like Gary and St. Louis I'll pass some neighborhoods that look like London during the blitz. I don't know how they just got blown up like that but makes for an interesting site. Any of you guys know of other places like this?
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Jackson, Mississippi is a very notorious one for entire neighborhoods of abandoned/decaying/overgrown houses and structures.
As mentioned in the OP - Gary, Indiana is really up there too.
Detroit was once the posterchild of this topic, but the city has been razing tens of thousands of abandoned structures for the last few years now. It is becoming more empty lots and urban prairie where abandoned/blighted structures once stood. Some parts of Detroit are being redeveloped and revitalized in a big way.
Whenever I'm passing though a rough neighborhood in places like Gary and St. Louis I'll pass some neighborhoods that look like London during the blitz. I don't know how they just got blown up like that but makes for an interesting site. Any of you guys know of other places like this?
The Madison St commercial corridor on the west side of Chicago was heavily damaged by the riots after MLK's assassination... and was mostly left in that state.
Gary suffered a loss of jobs at the Gary Works steel mill from a high of 30,000 people in the 1970s to below 2500 now. Gary is a company town, and that's what happens to company towns when the company all but leaves.
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