Lost cities

Ahhh, another WebUrbanist Abandonment, this one is '8 cities that may end up abandoned'.

Guessing this is a sign of the times we're experiencing in the current political and economic down turns.

The gigantic Waiting Room

The first is Detroit - the motor city, the area has suffered decades of industrial loss (between 1970 and 1980, Detroit shed 208,000 jobs). The post has some great photos of that glorious building the Michigan Central Station

Check out the photographer Shane Gorski's set on Flickr, for some atmospheric shots.

The Offices floor

Other cities featured are St. Louis in Missouri, Youngstown in Ohio, Leipzig and Wittenberge in the former East Germany, Ivanovo in the Russian Federation, Kashgar in western China where the authorities are destroying the thousand-year-old old quarter deemed a safety hazard and eyesore.
And finally, the most famous declining city of them all. Venice is indisputably one of the loveliest cities in the world - all the more so because it’s disappearing under the waves.