Haunting Images Of Detroit's Decline (PHOTOS)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/detroit-decline_n_813696.html#218521

Saw this article yesterday and had to share. I remember a forum member posted similar pics a while back (Boxsterboy?). Chenobyl or Detroit, can't tell the difference.

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DatDereEV said:
The government is flattening entire neighbourhoods in Detroit.

Its the most dangerous place in America right now, apparently. There are some good YT vids on it
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Yeah I bet, there my be ghettos everywhere... which brings drugs, crack house, prostitution, murders... I guess they'll end up with homeless people moving in Detroit to squat the buildings.
 
The packard plant area is awe inspiring in the size but falling into ruin. Firetrucks will no longer go in to put out fires there.
 
Is that what the second pic is?

I find what's going on or not going on, in Detroit to be really interesting.
 
First picture is packard plant.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paanta/sets/731080/

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/

Good sites for info

"The 3,500,000 sq ft (325,000 m2) Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit was located on over 35 acres (0.14 km2) of land. It was designed by Albert Kahn, and included the first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction in Detroit. When opened in 1903, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world, and its skilled craftsmen practised over eighty trades. The dilapidated plant still stands,[10][11] despite repeated fires.[12] Architect Kahn also designed the Packard Proving Grounds at Utica, Michigan."
 
interesting fact.. in 1950, Michigan (Detroit is the biggest city in Michigan) was 1 of the 8 states in the united states that collectively produced 36% of the world's gnp.
 
I've been to detroit briefly last summer, and from the parts of the city that I visited, it wasn't that bad at all. especially around where Chrysler and Ford is located, everything looks clean and nice.
 
I effing love Detroit, so much culture and random messed up shit going down there its incredible.

saw this documentary yesterday, sounds like Morgan Freeman!

 
thinking about going to DEMF, the techno festival in Detroit in May.. but my friends are scurrrred to get shot.
 
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