This is all that's left of the flats on the Van Hoornestraat in the Lingewijk ("wijk" in Dutch is the equivalent of the Parisian "quartier").

I wonder what - if anything - will replace them. The current crisis in the Dutch housing market is forcing developers and local government to call a halt to many construction projects. The old town center of Gorinchem has already got two large muddy fields where row houses have been torn down to make way for an ambitious urban plan that fizzled out. 

Perhaps the local kids will be able to kick a football around this summer on green grass instead of tarmac?