Apocalypse DETROIT

Driving Detroit

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:04:28 -0500

Driving Detroit

Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:01:26 -0500

Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit :

“Farming is how Detroit started,” Score said, “and farming is how Detroit can be saved.”

William Livingstone Mansion (via michpics)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:08:00 -0500

William Livingstone Mansion

(via michpics)

Remembering the Riots: Detroit 40 Years Later For many, it was a...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:26:00 -0500

Remembering the Riots: Detroit 40 Years Later

For many, it was a rebellion; a violent response to years of police brutality, unemployment, unequal schools and housing that fed a feeling of hopelessness. It was a demand for civil rights.

(via npr)

People Mover (via mikeydbn)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:50:00 -0500

Detroit Race Riots 1943 Industrial plants provided jobs but not...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:51:00 -0500

Industrial plants provided jobs but not housing. White communities militantly guarded the dividing lines imposed by segregation throughout Detroit’s history. As a result, the city’s 200,000 black residents were cramped into sixty square blocks on the East Side and forced to live under deplorable sanitary conditions. Ironically, the ghetto was called Paradise Valley.

(pic via info.detnews.com)

Kiss - Detroit Rock City (via Vimeo)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:33:00 -0500

Kiss - Detroit Rock City (via Vimeo)

I will not tag the school… (via Ken Cadel)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:16:04 -0500

I will not tag the school… (via Ken Cadel)

Pathways of Desire

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:43:00 -0500

Pathways of Desire:

In the heart of summer, too, it becomes clear that the grid laid down by the ancient planners is now irrelevant. In vacant lots between neighborhoods and the attractions of thoroughfares, bus stops and liquor stores, well-worn paths stretch across hundreds of vacant lots. Gaston Bachelard called these les chemins du désir: pathways of desire. Paths that weren’t designed but eroded casually away by individuals finding the shortest distance between where they are coming from and where they intend to go.

The Heidelberg Project The elements of the canvas contain...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:00 -0500

The Heidelberg Project

The elements of the canvas contain recycled materials and found objects, most of which were salvaged from the streets of Detroit. Each work of art is carefully devised to tell a story about current issues plaguing society. As a whole, the HP is symbolic of how many communities in Detroit have become discarded. It asks questions and causes the viewer to think. When you observe the HP, what do you really see? Is it art? Is it junk? Is it telling a story? That’s for you to decide.

The People Mover « Borrowed City

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:32:17 -0500

The People Mover « Borrowed City:

In both situations, the subtext was the hope that complex, deep-seated economic problems could be solved with a single flashy, expensive gimmick with a vaguely futuristic aesthetic. It makes me wonder whether we will soon begin to see People Movers and Renaissance Centers on a national scale, as the problems facing the massively bloated, broke, suffering Neo-Detroit that increasingly is the United States itself become increasingly intractable–an amusement park in space, for example.

Everything Is Going To Be Alright

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:54:15 -0500

Everything Is Going To Be Alright:

Once hailed as “The Paris of The West” and a national center for investment and development, Detroit has become a symbol of failed urban policy over the past 40 years of decline. Vacant skyscrapers and factories dotting Detroit’s skyline testify to the city’s high water mark, a stirring juxtaposition of old and new, decayed and opulent.

Bike Among the Ruins

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:22:30 -0500

Bike Among the Ruins:

Biking in the D is the transportation equivalent of the Slow Food movement, offering a perspective that’s completely lost to those zooming in on the Lodge Freeway and I-75, those great superhighways that, once upon a time in the name of progress, were sliced deep into the heart of the city only to bleed it dry.

(via videoportfolio)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:13:38 -0500

(via videoportfolio)

penthouse (via g. s. george) Abandoned skyscrapers! With grass...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:09:02 -0500

penthouse (via g. s. george)

Abandoned skyscrapers! With grass growing in the penthouse!

DETROIT’S GREEN PROJECTS Daniel Denvir takes us to...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:48:00 -0500

DETROIT’S GREEN PROJECTS

Daniel Denvir takes us to Detroit, Michigan to look at two proposals for revitalizing the Motor City: green manufacturing and urban agriculture.

Flickr: Vanished Detroit

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:40:00 -0500

Flickr: Vanished Detroit:

More than any other US city, Detroit is being transformed- both by decay and by regeneration.

(via MisterSirius)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:35:11 -0500

(via MisterSirius)

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:00 -0500

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit:

…during that hazy summer, immense economic, social and political forces that had been set in motion years prior were to render large sections of the city and its industrial structures into ruination. Could one be instantly transported from that time forward twenty years it would appear as if large areas of the city had been carpet bombed, leaving behind huge hulking ruins—ruins larger and more extensive than those I found in my travels to Zimbabwe, El Tajin, Ephesus, Athens, or Rome.

Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:12:00 -0500

Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline:

Nowadays, [Detroit’s] splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great civilization.