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When I was a teenager I went to East St. Louis, and at the time I couldn't imagine a place looking any worse. Maybe it was because it seemed nearly the entire city, or at least what I saw of it was run down, whereas, in most cities it is only certain neighborhoods you may not see when visiting.
One trend that seems pretty apparent is the worst areas are caused by economic failures that lowers residential demand.
The worst areas are caused by residential abandonment. The people left behind usually fit in one of a few categories...people that can't let go of a neighborhood that once was...people who moved in because it has high access to the city, but is extremely cheap... people who are homeless/vagrants and find easy squatting... and people who are poorly educated and never traveled much and don't know any better.
With that said... I am curious if anyone knows of any resource maps that show spatially within rustbelt cities where neighborhoods have become abandoned and where neighborhoods have maintained character. (I have never been to Detroit...so im only theorizing..) I would think as people leave the city and areas become more abandoned...wouldn't people from more abandoned areas choose to move to a home in a less abandoned neighborhood where the neighborhood character is more likely to be maintained as the city shrinks?
FYI: The map doesn't accurately depict the area they meant.
That area in the pic damen to western between lake/grand is not THAT bad... sheez, I used to go through there all the time. There are much much worse in Chicago IMHO. Must have had a slaughter over there or something to up the statistics.
That area in the pic damen to western between lake/grand is not THAT bad... sheez, I used to go through there all the time. There are much much worse in Chicago IMHO. Must have had a slaughter over there or something to up the statistics.
That 25 most dangerous neighborhood list is HIGHLY BIASED and was not constructed using proper social science for reasons I mentioned in a thread about it.
That area in the pic damen to western between lake/grand is not THAT bad... sheez, I used to go through there all the time. There are much much worse in Chicago IMHO. Must have had a slaughter over there or something to up the statistics.
The list is worthless because the "neighborhoods" are very random, and they are tied to population.
The "neighborhoods" in Chicago are things like a small industrial area, and a plot of vacant land with 3 houses on the southern boundry.
I would say Gary, Indiana, East St. Louis, IL, or some of the worst parts of Chicago's South and West Sides.
The "Dirty 100s" on Chicago's South Side may be the most dangerous neighborhood in America, though Gary and East St. Louis are more bombed-out looking.
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