ghost town

A historic town built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War has been destroyed by industry, particularly by South African apartheid-era company Sasol.

Rural Japan has been on a long, steady decline for decades, but the pandemic now has some plotting an escape from the cities.

A former ghost town in Utah is now inhabited by one resident who dreams of turning the rundown space into an artist residency.

A dismissed steelworker in small industrial Welsh town Port Talbot turns to an unlikely career in fashion to try to make sense of a life beyond heavy industry.

VICE News followed the Islamic Front as they battled to retain control of the capital of the Syrian revolution.