Eventually the crumbling ruins will be all gone, and Detroit will be left with a sustainable population and buildings appropriate for that population. The areas abandoned by the city will become larger yards, farms, and parks.

The transition from an industrial center to a more rural environment is an ugly one, but the ugliness is temporary. It's also not something unique to Detroit...if you look at most of the great cities of the world throughout human history, most eventually experience something similar to what we are seeing there today. Who knows, centuries from now our descendants may even tour the ruins of industrial Detroit the same way we tour the ruins of Rome...it will be like walking through an echo of a world that will no longer exist for them.

I was commenting less on the visual nature of what I saw than the societal and moral. I hope Detroit does emerge as an template for a new sustainable culture, but the oligarchs are working hard against that.

2014 - 1950 = "almost 65 years on" LOL...


COME ON!

Is a very recent construction. It's located about 80 Lake Shore Dr. in Grosse Pointe Farms - just a bit east of Edgemere Rd.

On the Google aerial you can see it's under construction.

which I keep reading here is a bad thing.

So there's that, I suppose.

So many, many empty or partially empty lots. Well, they're not empty, the vegetation is taking over.

However, it has always been this way. Cities come and go. The ebb and flow of history and all that ...