As infrastructure ages, wood rots and concrete decays. As buildings fall farther into neglect, it is no longer advantageous to continue spending money on repairs. Such structures are abandoned and left to deteriorate in the elements, eventually collapsing to the ground.
As time marches on, more homes and buildings will end their lives this way. Please view the photos I have taken of properties in various stages of urban decay, an unpleasant fact of life in a city which has aged, leaving history in its wake.
WILLIAM STANLEY