Showing posts with label urbanization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urbanization. Show all posts

Picture of the Day: Beautiful, Horrible Urban Decline

William Livingstone House in Detroit

The William Livingstone House in Detroit, constructed in 1893 in the once-elegant Brush Park neighborhood.

Time Magazine published a powerful photo series about urban decline in Detroit.

"Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes...the volatile result of the change of eras and the fall of empires. This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things."

More Pictures of the Day on The Road.

Picture courtesy by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

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Picture of the day: Urbanisation

hongkong

The proportion of people living in towns, rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 billion) in 2005. By 2050 over 6 billion people, two thirds of humanity, will be living in towns and cities.

More "Pictures of the Day" on the Road.

Picture courtesy chickencrap.com

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