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Entries from July 2009

ForgottenProvidence mashup documents Providence’s abandoned houses

July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A trio of young design-geeks, immigrants to Providence, have taken it upon themselves to document the impact of the foreclosure crisis in Providence, one boarded-up house at a time. Their site, ForgottenProvidence, is a mashup of user-generated photo content, property data, and Zillow real estate data. Though it has what would be considered a sampling [...]

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Tags: Providence · mashup · real estate