1. Paraguay

For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more.
由于自然和人类活动等诸如此类的原因,世界各地的人们撤离和废弃了很多建筑和地方。下面的图集中所呈现的无人区,有因为核灾难人们被迫撤离的区域,有遭到破坏的城市居民区,有因为居民逃离暴力冲突而荒芜的小镇,有因为房地产泡沫破裂而无人问津的房屋,有鬼城的废墟,还有许多:

1. A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011.
2011年10月2日,巴拉圭首都亚松森市的郊区,一棵树从一家废弃工厂的烟囱里长出来。

2. China

2. A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011.
2011年12月7日,在距离北京西南部240公里的河北省曲阳县党城乡,一尊孔子的头像被丢弃在一个废弃的工厂里。

3. Japan

3. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011. Vines creep across Tomioka's empty streets, its prim gardens overgrown with waist-high weeds and meadow flowers.
2011年8月19日,日本福岛县富冈市的一条街道上长满了常春藤。葡萄藤爬过富冈市空无一人的街道,之前整洁的花园里疯长了齐腰高的杂草和野花。

4.Libya

4. Sand blows across the coastal highway near Brega in eastern Libya, on April 1, 2011.
2011年4月1日,利比亚东部的布瑞加市附近的沿海高速公路上刮起了狂沙。

5. Ireland

5. Cnoc An Iuir, an empty and unsold housing development, is pictured in the village of Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland, on January 28, 2012. During the economic boom, Irish developers attempted to cash in, building tens of thousands of houses. However, poor planning decisions and the global recession have resulted in a large number of estates being abandoned, unoccupied or unfinished.
2012年1月28日,爱尔兰利特里姆郡德拉姆山伯村一处空空无人问津的房地产开发项目。经济快速发展时期,爱尔兰的投资商蜂拥而来投入巨资建造了上万座住宅。然而规划决策的缺陷和全球经济衰退,使得一大批的房地产项目遭遗弃,无人居住或是没有完工。

6. Libya

6. The abandoned conference hall inside the Benghazi Cathedral, in the Libyan rebels' stronghold city of Benghazi, photographed on June 5, 2011. Benghazi Cathedral, designed by Italian architects Guido Ottavo and Cabiati Ferrazza, was built between 1929 and 1939, and was one of the largest churches in North Africa. The building was later used as a headquarters for the Arab Socialist Union, finally becoming vacant and derelict. As of 2009, the cathedral and its entire site have been under renovation by an Italian company.
2011年6月5日,利比亚反叛武装要塞城市班加西的大教堂里大厅内空无一人。班加西大教堂由意大利建筑师Guido Ottavo和Cabiati Ferrazza设计,教堂建于1929年到1939年间,是北非最大的教堂之一。这座教堂曾经是阿拉伯社会主义联盟的总部,后来遭到遗弃。2009年,一家意大利公司对教堂和主体建筑进行翻新。

7. Iraq

 

7. An arch that formerly read "The Alamo", at the entrance to the former U.S. soldiers living quarters at Camp Adder, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on December 3, 2011.
2011年12月3日,伊拉克纳西里耶的艾德营地,这里曾经有美军士兵驻守。

8. British

8. Smashed windows and abandoned satellite dishes pepper a facade of one of the blocks of the derelict Heygate estate in South London, on November 29, 2011.
2011年11月29日,伦敦南部一个遭遗弃的房地产项目,一些窗户的玻璃出现破损,卫星天线孤零零地守在窗外。

9. Bulgaria

9. A goat walks through a deserted school classroom in the village of Voynitsa, some 100 kms (60 miles) north of the capital Sofia, at the heart of Bulgaria's northwestern region, on December 6, 2011. The bare fields, the empty roads, the ruined houses and the shuttered schools say it all. Welcome to Bulgaria's rural northwest, officially the poorest region in the European Union. In the 1970s and 1980s, the region saw massive

industrialization, making goods solely for the communist-era Comecon market. But when the Iron Curtain fell 20 years ago, the factories closed.

2011年12月6日,保加利亚首都索非亚以北100公里的沃伊特萨村,一只山羊闯进废弃的教室。贫瘠的土地,空旷的公路,废弃的房子和紧闭的学校说明了一切:欢迎来到保加利亚西北部,欧盟最贫困的地区。上世纪七八十年代,当地走上大规模的工业化道路,所制造的产品只供给共产主义时代的经济互助委员会。20年前苏联解体后工厂随之关闭。

10.Ukraine

10. A view of the abandoned city of Prypiat near the failed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, on April 15, 2011.
2011年4月15日,乌克兰切尔诺贝利核电站附近的鬼城普里皮亚季。

11.Mexico

11. A neighborhood of mostly empty houses in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on December 21, 2011. Tens of thousands of people have abandoned Ciudad Juarez, a city wrecked by Mexico's drug violence. Although official figures vary, the city this month likely surpassed 10,000 homicides in the past four years.
2011年12月21日,墨西哥的华雷斯市一个街区大部分的房屋空无一人。墨西哥毒品暴力一直在这个城市肆虐,导致数万居民被迫离开家园。虽然官方数据不确定,但本月据估计在过去4年时间里,当地共有超过1万人遇害。

12. America

12. A damaged home at dusk in Joplin, Missouri, on August 16, 2011. Residents were still recovering and rebuilding from a devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, in late May, 2011.
2011年8月16日,美国密苏里州的乔普林被龙卷风摧毁的房屋。2011年5月末,乔普林市遭到毁灭性的龙卷风袭击。目前当地居民仍在从伤痛中恢复和重建家园。

13.America

13. Swings hang in tall grass at a playground in Scenic, South Dakota, on October 6, 2011. The city's school closed down in the late 1990s, when the area ran out of school-aged children to teach. The city was recently sold by ailing owner Twila Merril to Iglesia ni Cristo, a Filipino church whose intentions are a complete mystery to area residents.
2011年10月6日,美国南达科他州锡尼克的一所废弃学校,操场内野草丛生。上世纪90年代末,这所学校因当地学龄儿童数量太少被迫关闭。最近菲律宾基督堂教会买下了锡尼克,至于买来做什么现在仍旧是一个谜。

14. German

14. Fiberglass dinosaurs and swans at the abandoned amusement park Spreepark in Berlin, on July 16, 2011. Berlin is littered with relics of its communist past, and one of the eeriest is the Spreepark, where the remains of what was once East Germany's only amusement park still stand.
2011年7月16日,德国柏林废弃的游乐园Spreepark,玻璃纤维制造的恐龙和天鹅早已无人问津。共产主义时代的遗迹遍地都是的柏林市,Spreepark曾经是东德唯一一家游乐园,现在却是柏林最诡异的东德废墟之一。

15.America

15. The abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan, on April 5, 2011.
2011年4月5日,美国密歇根州底特律废弃的中央车站。

16. America

16. The interior of the abandoned Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church, in Detroit, Michigan, on December 18, 2011.
2011年12月18日,密歇根州底特律市废弃的乌干达殉教者天主教堂内部。

17.Spain

17. Apartment blocks in Sesena in the Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain, seen on February 9, 2012. Only a 45-minute drive from downtown Madrid, towering vacant apartment blocks loom over empty streets and weed-filled lots. Apartments galore are for sale and rent, and prices are plunging. More than 13,000 apartments were supposed to go up here to create a mini-city for 30,000 people. But only 5,100 were built, many are uninhabited and most commercial storefronts in the mega-development are bricked shut. Spain's phenomenal real estate crash and economic implosion has turned what was supposed to become a vibrant suburban paradise for young Spanish couples and their children into one of the most visible monuments of the country's real estate boom gone bust.
2012年2月9日,西班牙托雷多的塞塞尼亚,一座座孤零零的公寓楼。塞塞尼亚离首都马德里只有45分钟的车程,空旷的街道和杂草丛生的土地上空闲的公寓楼高耸入云若影若现。按照计划,当地本将建造超过1.3万套公寓,形成一个可容纳3万人的迷你城市,但最后只建造了5100套,很多无人居住,绝大多数大型店面也被迫关闭。这里本该成为西班牙年轻夫妇和孩子的郊区天堂,而现在这些公寓楼却成为西班牙房地产泡沫破裂和经济内爆的一个缩影。

18.Greece

18. Unused flagposts stand in front of a litter-strewn water feature in the 2004 Olympic Games Complex in Athens, Greece, on February 18, 2012. In 2004 the Olympics returned to Greece, the birthplace of the ancient and modern Olympic Games, however the legacy of the Games has been called into question with many facilities falling into disrepair less than 8 years after they were held. 
2012年2月18日,希腊雅典一个荒废的奥运会设施,光秃秃的旗杆矗立在充斥着垃圾的水池旁。作为传统和现代奥林匹克运动的故乡,2004年奥运会回归雅典却在让雅典人为之兴奋的同时也带来麻烦。还不到八年的时间,很多奥运设施就已经处在荒废状态。

19.Greece

19. Discarded fencing outside the Olympic indoor pool and the OAKA sports hall in the 2004 Olympic Games Complex in Athens, Greece, on February 18, 2012.
2012年2月18日,举办过2004年奥运会的雅典奥林匹克室内游泳馆和体育中心衰败的外部景象。

20.America

20. A hallway in the empty Pennhurst State Hospital in Spring City, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 2010. Since the last residents left more than 20 years ago, Pennhurst State Hospital sat vacant.
2010年9月15日,美国宾夕法尼亚州春城,潘恩赫斯特州立医院空无一人的走廊。在20多年前最后一批居民离开后,这所医院遭到荒废。