Urban Decay in Atlanta

According to Wikipedia, urban decay is the sociological process whereby a city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude, with depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.

Although it is said to become better, I have observed some terrible examples of urban decay in Downtown Atlanta. Most streets around Underground Atlanta are barren and desolate with creepy buildings around. Buildings on those streets look like ghost town buildings that we see on movies. I felt bad for the city of Atlanta because although it is developing rapidly, all the wealth is flowing to the suburbs and no urban culture like in Europe or in San Francisco can be created where artist and wealthy communities reside downtown.

Below is a photograph of the abandoned Medical Arts Buliding just south of I-20 in downtown Atlanta, in a very central location but left alone for decades.

Can Amado