Take a look at the top floor and that window. This building is slowly rotting away. You can see it with the windows as the paint peels and the frames slowly give and buckle.
Falling apart
Take a look at the top floor and that window. This building is slowly rotting away. You can see it with the windows as the paint peels and the frames slowly give and buckle.
where is this? one of the vacant schools on the unit block of P?
Demolition by neglect (DBN). The objective of DBN is often to prevent the asset from being acquired by "undesirables". In this case, the undesirables are "gentrifiers".
Its analogous to the way the Germans were blowing everything up as they retreated from Poland and France. They made their last stand in P.G. County.
Maurice don't you mean the Russians? Modern European history was my subject in grad school, and as I remember it the Russians burned their own towns as invading armies advanced, mix that with the Russian winters, and they had a pretty good defense.