The Huffington Post ran an article yesterday about Detroit’s decline. Wow, what a sad and beautiful place! It looks like the set from that Will Smith movie “I Am Legend”. Wild packs of dogs roam the streets and foliage has grown where sidewalks used to be. And dogs aren’t the only things roaming around. Real wildlife is claiming parts of the city as well.
As an historic building enthusiast, I’d like to see these structures saved. As an environmentalist, I say let nature take it back. We’re always tearing down trees and destroying natural habitats. Well, let the city become a forest. It’s been abandoned anyway.
It sure has some nice architecture though.
See also: Detroit Blog
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Sure wish we could airlift some of those beauts to the Hudson Valley, say.
http://casacara.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/100-abandoned-houses/
Check out Newburgh, NY. Great ruins right in the Hudson Valley!
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