detroits beautiful, horrible decline

[kiley9806]

found this to be an interesting photo essay:

http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...882089,00.html

a quote from the photographers "Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes...the volatile result of the change of eras and the fall of empires. This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things."

[jjeling]

Those were some great images. Thanks for sharing that Kiley. We have stuff like that in our city as well. I just need to figure out who I can contact to get INSIDE the buildings now. Maybe that will be my goal on Monday. Contact the city for permission. It would probably be something they might want to see.

[kiley9806]

heres another - colorful religious events around the world:
http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...884155,00.html

[kiley9806]

oh - and heres possibly my fav one - theres so many to choose from!

http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...672062,00.html

[tirediron]

Awesome thanks for sharing!

[kiley9806]

glad you enjoyed TI!

[casil403]

CBC's "The National" with Peter Mansbridge just did an expose on Detroit Monday this past week...the average purchase price of a house in Detroit these days is apparently $6000...and foreclosure is the biggest business right now. The journalist doing the story was dumbstruck after touring foreclosed houses with a realtor who works for the banks. One house they were touring was on the market for $500. Gotta say I was a bit dumbstruck too.

They also have included exposes on the real estate market in Florida and Windsor, Ontario this week as well....very interesting and sad....

They might be doing more cities this week if anyone is interested

[JAS_Photo]

Here is a forum thread on a similar theme entitled "Your Cities Lost Architectural Masterpieces. Very interesting as well.

From the Skyscraper Page


Here is an example from Detroit in particular:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...1&postcount=16

[AntZ]

Some interesting shots there.
The Brick factory where I worked for nearly 15 years was just pulled down. I so wanted to spend a few hours taking photos of the ruins, but Workplace health and safety being what it is these days and the fact that the place was 7 acres of asbestos roofing I didn't bother trying to obtain access.