Mapping Detroit's Blight

A Picture of Detroit Ruin, Street by Forlorn Street.  (The New York Times, 2/18/2014)

Going beyond what other cities have done. While some cities like New Orleans and Cleveland have taken elaborate steps to map neighborhoods with unoccupied and damaged buildings, urban planners around the nation are watching the census of blight now taking place in Detroit for what it might mean for the way the most troubled cities can track empty, decaying structures and decide what do about them.

Detroit Blight Authority