Detroit is an example of areas being largely abandoned for economic reasons. It has been heavily dependent upon the automobile-manufacturing industry for decades, and as the market share of the US auto manufacturers shrunk, so did the number of jobs available in Detroit. It is a larger-scale version of the ghost towns of the American west, which mostly date back to mines closing once the mineral deposits had been exhausted. Detroit has had some notable riots, particularly during the civil-rights struggle of the 1960s, but the economic collapse began a generation later.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships? >From :mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com Date :Wed Oct 20 15:29:32 America/Chicago 2010 2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>: > I am not aware of any location in the USA (or anywhere else in the world, for > that matter) where a downtown was torn down for fear of riots. There are a > few cities where large numbers of buildings have been abandoned by their > former owners because of the collapse of the local economy, after the primary > employer went out of business, but that is not the same thing. detroit? http://maps.google.it/maps?hl=de&q=detroit&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Detroit,+Wayne+County,+Michigan-Territorium,+Vereinigte+Staaten&gl=it&ei=_U2_TNDkIKWU4gbKpfi4AQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ8gEwAA&ll=42.330076,-83.034947&spn=0.001674,0.005284&t=k&z=18 have a look at the first picture here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCIQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diercke.de%2Fbilder%2Fomeda%2F1_3_2007_sek1_detroit1.pdf&rct=j&q=downtown%20stadtumbau%2060er%20jahre&ei=W1C_TJvhHsugOs3AlSw&usg=AFQjCNHZXgx9cT9rnMlPRCENaa6b6YG4Rw&cad=rja even in Paris huge amounts of the old city were tore down in the 19th century There are other examples, those are the most famous... cheers, Martin -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
