These pictures of post-Olympic ruins show a fate that must never be allowed for London.
The pictures on the excellent Flavorwire website are from an exhibition called The Olympic City by photographer Jon Pack and filmmaker Gary Hustwit.
The Paralympics opens tonight, but in 12 days time London's time in the Olympic spotlight will come to an end.
Organisers insist that London's Olympic and Paralympic legacy is more secure than any previous host city with organisers placing as much emphasis on planning for the future as hosting the Games itself.
One example is that several of the venues for London have been built as temporary structures, particularly for sports that do not have a strong following in this country such as basketball and beach volleyball.
And the choice of the location for the Olympic Park itself is also cited with billions of pounds now pouring into an area of East London which was previously one of the poorest areas in Europe.
But let these pictures be a warning that, at this stage, the job is only half done.
Beijing 2008 Kayaking venue - picture credit: David Gray via The Atlantic
Athens 2004 Softball arena - picture credit: Jamie McGregor Smith via It's Nice That
Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympic ski jump - picture credit: Karen Barlow via cloudlessness
Munich 1972 Olympic Stadium train station - picture credit: Twin City Photos
Agree with the sentiment, but a couple of points. Seems a bit harsh to judge a winter sports venue in the summer when there's no snow (although it does look pretty derelict). Perhaps more importantly the Munich Olympic park is still very much in operation, just served by a different station. I've been a couple of times, the vast majority of the park is fully operational and very well kept, popular with tourists and locals alike.
The old olympia bahnhof in Munich has been disused since 1988.
The station was built as an addition to the new s-bahn just for the Olympics so that the network could cope with the huge influx of visitors for the games.
Nearly 4 million people used that station over the duration of the games.
The station closed shortly after but reopening from 1984 til 1988 where it served it's purpose to ferry football fans to the stadium.
The underground links to the OlympiaPark are very good and modern and very regular and can cope with high volumes of visitors to the area.
The games at London were a huge success and it will be interesting to see how the area is looking when the post Olympic changes have been made.
I think that it is important to remember that some of the facilities are not going to be used again or at least not in their original capacity. I hope though, that we done see scenes like that here in the uk.
I am hoping that what we have built for the olympics can be used for other things and activities in the city - we will wait and see