On a smaller scale, I live in Baltimore and there are whole blocks of boarded-up three-story brick row-homes, some of them with the ceilings collapsed and trees

On a smaller scale, I live in Baltimore and there are whole blocks of boarded-up three-story brick row-homes, some of them with the ceilings collapsed and trees growing up through them, and big wooden buttresses in place to keep the facade from collapsing. I grew up around here, and spent a half-decade in Colorado. It feels like such a waste seeing the densely-packed tract housing appearing in the middle of the plains there as I drive by boarded-up crumbling ruins here.