Abandoned places, forgotten histories from across the five boroughs. What happened to Detroit? Kwame Kilpatrick. Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is a former Michigan state representative and Democratic mayor of Detroit.
Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being convicted on felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty, but with good time awarded to county jail inmates in Michigan, he was released on probation after serving 99 days. On May 25, 2010, he was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in prison for violating his probation,[5] and served time at the Oaks Correctional Facility in northwest Michigan.
Early life, education and family[edit] Kwame Malik Kilpatrick was born June 8, 1970, to Bernard Kilpatrick and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. Political career[edit] Michigan state representative[edit] Mayor of Detroit[edit] First term[edit] Special administratorship[edit] 2005 re-election campaign[edit] Mr. The Abandoned City of Detroit - Photography: Zach Fein. The study of abandonment must convene upon Detroit at one point or another.
No other city in the United States has undergone such a dramatic level of population decline, abandonment, and urban decay over the past few decades. As many of the posts under the research section of this site convey, industry in America has toppled and left behind an amazing amount of abandoned and decaying architecture. Detroit, the nation's most industrious city, reflects this in a unique way.
The failing industry was met with, social, racial, and political tensions. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the city, and today the population is less than half of what it was in 1950 (For a detailed analysis of Detroit's fall, visit this page). Today, not only is nearly half of Detroit's 138 square mile area vacant, beautiful architecture is left with no hope of use. The photo galleries below document examples of the size and scale of abandonment and decay in Detroit.
What's Wrong Gary? Rust and Ruin in Indiana. Taking the train from Chicago to blighted Gary, Indiana, a British visitor confronts globalization's impact on former industrial cities in the midst of car-focused urban planning.
"My kind of town" sang Sinatra of the second city of the USA. Yet if past entrepreneurial fortunes had turned out differently, "Old Blue Eyes" would have needed a different line. At the beginning of last century, as Chicago was recovering from its great fire, another town vied to become the engine room and principal city of the lakes. Thirty miles along the mud flats of Lake Michigan, on the short stretch of shoreline belonging to Indiana, is the municipality of Gary. Enormous steel mills were established here, followed by processing plants for tin, tubing and all things ferrous. An hour after emerging from the shadows of gleaming corporate skyscrapers, the train pulled in at Gary Metro Center. A sense of Armageddon was partly relieved opposite the defunct Palace cinema. Continue to Page 2. Thelostfrance's Blog. Have you ever heard about this forgotten amusement park ?
Probably the first biggest theme park in France, Mirapolis was located at Cergy Pontoise, near Paris. With a surface area of 220 acres, this amusement park had opened first in 1987. It counted up to 45 attractions. With its Gargantua statue (the second world biggest hollow statue after Statue Of Liberty), Mirapolis was recognizable from miles away. Why this park lasted only 3 years ? First of all, the huge area was very bad thought. During the first year of exploitation, fairground people refused this park and distributed over 1,500 fake entrance tickets.
Fairground people have caused great harm to Mirapolis and the park suffered huge business losses. 2 years later, the park owner filed a petition for bankruptcy. One year later, the park fell apart. In 1995, the Gargantua’s head threatened to fall down and was dynamited. Now there is nothing in this park, except vegetation and some rusty whirligig.
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