[fieldmarshaldj]

I used Google Maps to try to find the location of the photo in Camden, NJ. As was mentioned, the city demo’d the entire block and beyond. Even the street is gone. Only the smokestack in the background stands in an empty field a block to the north.

Here it is from the exact same perspective as of 2017:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9182965,-75.1207072,3a,47.8y,9.91h,84.93t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5vfC317PYR6d016xdjFd2w!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D5vfC317PYR6d016xdjFd2w%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D318.63086%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Not even urban anymore. Back to wilderness.

[neverevergiveup]

That's astounding! There's something eerie about it, like life that was there has been erased. I've felt this way when looking at pictures of the area on the south Chicago shore of lake Michigan where the US Steel plant once was. That's a big area, and it too strikes me as eerie - like there are ghosts there or something. It's also always amazing to me how quickly nature can take back over once an area is abandoned.

[SunkenCiv]

I gotta say, it's an improvement. Detroit's been de-urbanized in the sense that surviving businesses (generally bars or party stores) have been buying for-sale empty adjacent buildings and demolishing them for parking. That will in the long run result in a healthier economy and bring some people back. What that hellhole really needs to do is get rid of the 2.4% city income tax (1.2% for non-residents) in favor of a (unheard of in Michigan) city sales tax. More is spent in Detroit than is earned in Detroit, uh, for some reason. :^(