In an era of neoliberal urbanism the waterfront has become a focal point of planning intervention; however, this raises important political issues concerning the distributional consequences of redeveloping large tracts of derelict land and dilapidated property.
Ellis encounters an assortment of bizarre characters who live in the dilapidated Land-of-Smiles Motel and lets himself be psychologically manipulated by a would-be delinquent, Jackie Cattle.
Visitors to Nanjie have only to look at some of the neighbouring villages, where there is little industry, houses are dilapidated and land is farmed in an inefficient patchwork of household plots, to realise that this is quite an achievement.
And many were not going to miss its dilapidated state.
Unification revealed the dilapidated state of the system.
She was disappointed by the site's dilapidated state.
Activists worry this could further dismantle the Detroit neighborhoods already pockmarked with vacant land and dilapidated housing.
One of my wife's cousins had excavated them from a dilapidated barn on the land that his parents used to farm.
We put in a bid for 35 acres of land, a dilapidated farmhouse and several outbuildings just a couple of miles from where we were living.
To compile this list, we only looked at homes that are publicly listed and for sale (as opposed to homes that are privately owned, not for sale or are being privately shopped around); we also only looked at single-family homes, so we did not include raw land with dilapidated housing structures.
But a year ago a study by the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force, an organization put together by the Obama administration, found that 78,506 buildings across the city's 139 square miles were dilapidated, and 114,000 parcels of land were vacant.
