PUBLIC MARKS with tag decay

What does a sudden evacuation look like? After everyone is gone, what happens to the places they've abandoned?

The illustrations of TokyoGenso (a.k.a. Tokyo Fantasy) depict a post-apocalyptic Tokyo devoid of people and overtaken by nature.

Edgemere is a Queens waterfront neighborhood split in two. In the north, residents live on the shores of Jamaica Bay. In the south, a vast plain covers more then 20 blocks of abandoned oceanfront. This city-owned wasteland is a part of the Arverne Urban Renewal Area, and may soon be redeveloped as Arverne East.

Une cynique expression russe du XVIIIe siècle déclarait que partout dans le monde les ruines se faisaient, mais qu’à Saint Pétersbourg on prenait le soin de les construire.

the mushrooms cultivated on the books, partly because these areas comment on the natural decomposition of the paper in books, something you won't find with ebook devices with their toxic ingredients.

I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago.

I scanned the nest each week.

A peek inside the Kyoto University dormitory first built in 1913 that still houses student squatters for the ultra low price of ¥2,500 a month.

People take too much care of their clothes these days, taking things to the dry cleaner

J. Bennett Fitts traveled some 20,000 miles to produce “No Lifeguard on Duty,” an investigation of America’s forgotten roadside motels. These vestiges of an earlier era—when families packed into their cars for summer vacations via two-lane highways—now exist in various stages of operation and disrepair. With their parking-lot-adjacent swimming pools prominently in the foreground, the motels reveal a decayed Americana and a near permanent sense of vacancy. However, beyond the cracked paint and the decrepit chain-links lies the nostalgia of life on the open road.

In the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. Today, the only residents are deer and wolves along with a solitary guard.