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Places that never were
Some places never get a chance to be. That, I fear, will be the case with the new Angolan city of Kilamba, a pre-planned, Chinese-built city designed for half a million residents, but which currently has only 220 occupied apartments. I’m not sure I know of another example of a city of this size being […]
Detroit depopulation map, revisited
April 27, 2012
Because I had a bit of time on my hands yesterday, I decided to quickly put together another map of the changes in population density in metro Detroit. But this time, instead of looking at absolute density changes like I did in the original map, I thought I would see if I got a different […]
New map: the depopulation of Detroit, 1970-2010
April 18, 2012
I’ve had a bit of an obsession with Detroit over the past few years. It’s perfectly natural. Not only was I born there (well, in the suburbs, anyway), but the city is a fascinating natural laboratory for me as a geographer. All sorts of things are happening in Detroit that don’t seem to be happening […]
What can we do about abandoned cities?
April 16, 2012
A few years ago, as part of my Ph.D. field work, I had the opportunity to travel to Romania for three weeks. I spent the first five or six days of the trip at a conference in a town called Baile Herculane, in the country’s humid southwestern region. We landed at Timisoara at almost the […]
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