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Dilapidated walls of Asingan Church, Philippines. Dilapidation is a term meaning a destructive event to a building, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living; the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good ...
The definition of a slum was classed by the Federal Housing Act of 1937 as "any area where dwellings predominate which, by reason of dilapidation, overcrowding, faulty arrangements or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitation facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to safety, health or morals".
Flotsam on a beach at Terschelling, Wadden Sea. In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are terms for various types of property lost or abandoned at sea. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. [1]
Municipalities of Cumberland, Maryland, were given the power to condemn and seize insanitary buildings in 1915. [5]In 2000, a Swedish researcher reports a case study in which after many years of puzzlement and contention, a building that housed government employees was condemned for sick building syndrome; that is, something indeterminate about the building itself made the occupants ill.
A 1961 American Rambler in disrepair. A decrepit car is a car that is often old and damaged and is in a barely functional state. There are many slang terms used to describe such cars, such as beater, clunker, chod, flivver, hooptie/hoopty, jalopy, old banger (most commonly used in the UK), but the most popular being junk car.
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Large room at the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Carol M. Highsmith (archive of the Library of Congress [1]) Detroit's formerly abandoned Michigan Central Station was a frequent subject of photographers, and a backdrop for movie-makers Abandoned power plant in Budapest, Hungary Block 65 on Hashima Island, Japan Ruined ski station, built for the 1984 Winter ...
Abandoned Salbert fortifications. Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex, and sometimes known as roof and tunnel hacking [1]) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment.