Amazing (and sad) videos showing the extent of ghettoes in some American cities.
Cleveland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuEwReDWkI (the worst - few intact windows)
Detroit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2l3QXMQelA
Chicago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir-J-9DIR70
Cincinatti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUokzWnWxc
St Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonBT8n9C_k
Baltimore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jGfifqOiIg
(above contain coarse language)
The building stock for some is not dissimilar to expensive inner-city areas in Sydney or Melbourne, and if their CBDs were growing some might be gentrifying. But unlike our cities some of theirs are losing population.
Cleveland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuEwReDWkI (the worst - few intact windows)
Detroit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2l3QXMQelA
Chicago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir-J-9DIR70
Cincinatti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUokzWnWxc
St Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonBT8n9C_k
Baltimore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jGfifqOiIg
(above contain coarse language)
The building stock for some is not dissimilar to expensive inner-city areas in Sydney or Melbourne, and if their CBDs were growing some might be gentrifying. But unlike our cities some of theirs are losing population.