They could at least allow Walking Dead and other film/television production companies to film all their post-apocalyptic and zombie features there.

Let us hope it's not a vision of the future landscape of America.

look the same. Without tax dollars, without acceptance of the 'other', without any sense of 'common good' or community, we fail.

30 billion dollars in debt. 80,000 abandoned buildings. Many with the belongings left behind as if the residents had been forced to flee a catastrophic disaster. The first American city to die. A ghost of itself. Loved by so many. Yet left to crumble. A reminder of human frailty. In this center of commerce where the industrialized age's greatest advances were once heralded to the world, we now see only its decline and sad destruction. It is its own monument to its proud past.

The photographs smell of must and rotting floorboards. Moth eaten, dusty rooms and never ending corridors full of falling plaster and broken glass.

It's obscene that perfectly good structures were allowed to sit and rot in this manner--and shame on the people who vandalized them.

I've seen photos of hotels and motels that were abandoned by their parent corporation--furniture, mattresses, kitchen equipment, lamps--virtually everything--just left. Why couldn't those facilities be used to house the homeless, allowing the corporation to write it all off? We have people living in the streets, and we could provide shelter for all of them--if we really wanted to.

Humans--at least the ones who run things--are disgraceful.

and it was the first time that I ever saw an abandoned and boarded-up skyscraper. I had hopped on the little people-mover monorail and road past empty downtown streets on a Friday afternoon. So sad.

Michigan Central Station is owned by Matty Maroun.

It would cost 5 to 10 million to demolish it. Furthermore, it is on the National Register of Historic Places, which prevents its demolition and probably severely restricts modifications to be something economically viable.

http://www.historicdetroit.org/building/michigan-central-station/

the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire."



Sad I lived to see this happen. I have no idea what kind of future my kids will have.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

This is a glimpse of our future: a gutted plutocracy that cares fuck-all about people who are not either part of the ruling class itself or still somehow useful to them (hired guns, managers of their offshore interests, etc.). This is what wealth concentration and deregulation (abetted by a healthy dose of corruption) brings.

Too many viable structures were ruined and left to the elements just for a few dollars worth of copper pipe etc.