The project was begun in St. Louis, Missouri in 1995 and focused on the abandonment of the downtown urban environment. Suburban sprawl has run rampant as over 10% of city residents have packed their bags since 1990 and headed for the lifestyles of suburban development. Left in the wake of exodus are the historical remnants of a once thriving urban community. The work of quality craftsmen and artisans abandoned for strip malls and mass produced domiciles.

The Urban Anthropology seeks out these forgotten places and examines what they have and are becoming. Who is left behind as caretaker of these surroundings, and their interactions there are quite incidental to this project. The appearance of human form is sparse in the images, although when needed, figures do lend further significance to the singularity of the recorded situation.

While St. Louis is an example of abandonment in progress, the second city of examination is an archetype of the final result of urban desertion.

The project continues its assessment of urban life by moving focus Eastward to long forgotten Asbury Park, New Jersey. A once booming seaside haven, whose boardwalk and casinos were bombarded with excitement, is now left near ruin. The wooden boardwalk now rotten, glorious casino and ballroom structures left to pigeon and seagull, and a single hamburger stand left in operation at the center of the strip, is the current condition. Where once a parking space could not be found for miles of the beach, now stand countless numbers of broken parking meters looking like broken old men. Children swim on littered beaches with no supervision, and the boardwalk offers no amusement.

The abandonment of historical structure continues in many cities today, and the continuation of the Urban Anthropology visual journal will continue too.