Human Interest

A Berlin-based artist has taken ruin porn to a whole new level. Not content with merely photos of abandoned buildings, he's taken a life-size slice...

Across Connecticut, abandoned sites are being built back up. It’s complicated and expensive work, but in recent years, the state has put millions of

BEIJING — Bankrupt Detroit’s thousands of empty buildings are being flogged at rock-bottom prices — and Chinese investors are answering the siren call of unb...

Here's just another example of how an innovative Detroiter is turning the negative problem of blight into something positive.

I visited the historic riverfront community of Jefferson Chalmers on Detroit's lower eastside on Saturday for a walking tour with residents and members of the Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP) and ...

Getting a better sense of how people visualize their neighborhoods could be the first step toward improving them.

In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed in an effort to save neighborhoods from blight, crime and sinking home prices.