About the Project

My photo
Portland, OR, United States
We are embarking on a project to document historical downtowns in America before they crumble. Many downtowns in former industrial towns and cities, such as Detroit, St. Louis, and Camden, NJ used to be booming industrial towns. Now storefronts stand abandoned and rotting, no one walks around and there are few cultural activities. We plan on photodocumenting large and small declining cities and towns alike, mostly in the Rust Belt and Texas. We are also interested in finding solutions that revitalize and restore these crumbling downtowns.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Brownsville

Brownsville, PA

Another classic small Rust-Belt city, Brownsville has been in decline since the 1970's. Market Street, the historic commercial Main-street appears largely boarded up. As is common with many Eastern US cities, the main commercial area was built among curvilinear streets. In Brownsville, these buildings and streets follow the contours of Monongahela River.



Posted by at
Labels: , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)