Urban Decay

[drummingpariah]

First post! Also, first picture taken with my new camera!



I came across this up the street from my house a couple days ago. I think it qualifies as urban decay, but might be a little borderline.

[tonyholland]

Like much of the rust belt in mid-continental North America many industrial buildings have been abandoned. The building in this submission has been empty for a few years and vine on the building has begun its reclaimation in an effort to compete for sun space.

"As humans depreciate nature finds value"

[Sil3ntP8nd8]

[brpowell]

[ts10873]

An abandoned house in the middle of the woods. We were hiking when we found it, there were no signs of roads leading to it at all.

[GSprague]

[yesimCarlos]

[cwachtel]

This is a variation on the urban decay theme ... I call it coastal decay, something very rare in the US. Pleasure Beach where more than 25% of Connecticut's undeveloped beachfront property lies is the state's largest and most recent ghost town:







There's more at my website and I even wrote a whole book on it

[Hayleyargh]

[zyndurai]

This assignment is perfect since I just went out and shot some pictures of downtown Phoenix. I checked DPS weekly assignment to see if I can enter any of the ones I took. However, I had only one photo of an abandoned building. This is suppose to be a fancy hotel, but because of the recent real estate crash in AZ, it never matured:



If anyone interested the entire set can be seen Downtown Phoenix - a set on Flickr