Detroit was mentioned in a number of online postings just before Christmas, particularly in relation to some dramatic images taken by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. It was also featured in an intriguing SLIDESHARE presentation that I came across...
This introduced some interesting geographical potential for the city..
The city has been losing population, and may have dropped to around 800 000 from a figure closer to 2 million back in the 1950s. Mayor Dave Bing has some ambitious plans for the city, and I'm going to follow how these develop.
The plans involve the razing of large areas of the city to the ground, and consolidation into a smaller area.There is also a suggestion that the large derelict areas may prove to be attractive to film-makers as film-sets, perhaps for films set in some dystopian future...
Motor town has come a long way, and there are some bumpy roads ahead, but some intriguing plans too...
Will make a fascinating case study of 'extreme urban regeneration'... Or you could always dig out the Kitty Murphy video on Glasgow GEAR scheme ;)
What's clear is that these abandoned buildings all have a story to tell: a city is more than just buildings, and there are many other changes which relate to these empty buildings.
UPDATE - 24th January: Via @urbanphoto_blog on Twitter, there is a very interesting article which describes the unease that the author feels about the use of such 'disaster porn'. The article is HERE, and there is also a link through to another article from the same source: The New Republic , which explores the plan to save what it calls 'America's Greatest Disaster' : THE DETROIT PROJECT.
This introduced some interesting geographical potential for the city..
The city has been losing population, and may have dropped to around 800 000 from a figure closer to 2 million back in the 1950s. Mayor Dave Bing has some ambitious plans for the city, and I'm going to follow how these develop.
The plans involve the razing of large areas of the city to the ground, and consolidation into a smaller area.There is also a suggestion that the large derelict areas may prove to be attractive to film-makers as film-sets, perhaps for films set in some dystopian future...
Motor town has come a long way, and there are some bumpy roads ahead, but some intriguing plans too...
Will make a fascinating case study of 'extreme urban regeneration'... Or you could always dig out the Kitty Murphy video on Glasgow GEAR scheme ;)
What's clear is that these abandoned buildings all have a story to tell: a city is more than just buildings, and there are many other changes which relate to these empty buildings.
UPDATE - 24th January: Via @urbanphoto_blog on Twitter, there is a very interesting article which describes the unease that the author feels about the use of such 'disaster porn'. The article is HERE, and there is also a link through to another article from the same source: The New Republic , which explores the plan to save what it calls 'America's Greatest Disaster' : THE DETROIT PROJECT.
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