Modern ruins
Videos
Modern ruins are the remains of architecture constructed in the recent past, generally in the most recent century, or since the 19th century. The term is most frequently used by people performing urba
Oradour-sur-Glane in France, which was destroyed by the military forces of Nazi Germany in the 1940s.
Abandoned test track for Aérotrain
The Belz Enterprises Belz Factory Outlet Mall, an abandoned shopping mall in Allen, Texas
Urban decay
Videos
Urban decay is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. There is no single process that leads to urban decay.
Modern ruins
…exploration of man-made architecture that is abandoned or no longer accessible to the general public, such as structures abandoned through the process of urban decay. Enough documentation on these sites may have been lost over time that this unscientific exploration resembles archaeology of ancient ruins in the…
Urban decay in Poznań, Poland. The tiles are cracked and covered in graffiti.
Many areas that suffered population decline from the 1970s still have signs of urban decay, such as this derelict building in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
Pruitt–Igoe public housing, St. Louis, Missouri. This urban renewal project was built in the 1950s; it failed and was razed in the 1970s.