Paramount Park is the heart of Columbia’s Central City, a massive open area that was once full of meadows and wooded paths. During the recession it has become the home of Kanetown, a colossal shanty-town that houses the city’s ever-growing homeless population. At its peak, its outer perimeter was lined with the grand mansions and townhouses of Columbia’s most affluent citizens, which now stand as rotting monuments to that lost age.

Paramount Park is the heart of Columbia’s Central City, a massive open area that was once full of meadows and wooded paths. During the recession it has become the home of Kanetown, a colossal shanty-town that houses the city’s ever-growing homeless population. At its peak, its outer perimeter was lined with the grand mansions and townhouses of Columbia’s most affluent citizens, which now stand as rotting monuments to that lost age.

Paramount Park is the heart of Columbia’s Central City, a massive open area that was once full of meadows and wooded paths. During the recession it has become the home of Kanetown, a colossal shanty-town that houses the city’s ever-growing homeless population. At its peak, its outer perimeter was lined with the grand mansions and townhouses of Columbia’s most affluent citizens, which now stand as rotting monuments to that lost age.