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- punchintheface, on 06/15/2009, -3/+22I am from Detroit, and I really hate all these photos of the worst areas being potrayed as the entire metropolitan area. Detroit has the highest taxes in the state, and after being mismanaged by corrupt mayors and city council for 40 years, a vast wasteland between downtown and the suburbs has emerged. People and businesses moved out. (even Ford and Chrysler headquarters havent been in the city for decades) There are about 750,000 in the City and 4.5 million in the metro area. There are beautiful places in the Detroit area, and the city as well, just no one is taking their pictures. It breaks my heart
- bmcnally, on 06/15/2009, -0/+18Race riots
"White flight" (this turned into "Anyone who has enough money to leave, does")
Corrupt politicians
Decline of auto industry
And a feeedback loop of points 2-4. - fyreboltx, on 06/15/2009, -1/+16Is the server in Detroit too? Because it's down already...
- Amazetbm, on 06/15/2009, -1/+15The decline of the U.S. car industry over the past four decades.
- endgame, on 06/15/2009, -0/+12What will they do with Detroit if all the businesses & people just leave?
- jakeny, on 06/15/2009, -1/+13All on one page!!!
DUGG! - satanherself, on 06/15/2009, -0/+10Hauntingly beautiful.....
- lazycat, on 06/15/2009, -0/+10Reminds me Life After People - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3Vag0Ugu4
- Doomsan, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8What happened in Detroit?
- cyrusuncc, on 06/15/2009, -1/+9Build Delta City!
- kylere, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8Next to Flint, Michigan Detroit is a paradise.
- EndouOuto, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7It's not surprising when you look at the retards running the city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOSNI7l0bQ - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7Really, I thought Eminem still lived in a trailer with his millions of dollars stacked in the closet.
- m4ngo, on 06/15/2009, -1/+7I'd rather not say
- silverchrysalis, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6raze parts of it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/f ...
they're trying this out in Flint, apparently. it'd be interesting to see how it works out. - bwjacket, on 06/15/2009, -1/+7Welcome to ThunderDome.
- vertinox, on 06/15/2009, -1/+7Or a 3rd world war zone.
I went to Detroit with a friend once to hang out with some people. We went by a few of those places in the pics because they are hospots for urban explorers. We had about 10 of us for safety because addicts tend to hang out.
I had some pictures from the Packard plant of us wandering around. Place is creepy.
There is like block after block of abandoned houses just sitting there many burned out from all the devil's nights.
We went by this place people are creating art through old rubbage and debris. The guy who owns it scavenges local buildings before they are demolished for statues and metalworks and turns them into creepy statues to show what Detroit has turned into.
Hell.... It was the first time I saw a ice cream truck handing out food to the homeless. Place has gone to hell. Rent is cheap though. - dizmoz, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6Did anyone else notice the "FTW" door?
- blackhole37, on 06/15/2009, -6/+12I thought I might see a picture of Eminem
- Smokeydabear, on 06/15/2009, -5/+10(Generic comment about how the decay looks like half-life 2/Fallout 3/Resident Evil/beautiful, combined with snarky observation about how Detroit is ***** in some way)
- ci5ic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5Bowling alley looks like the one from Big Lebowski...
- daimposter, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5i agree. the problem with Detroit is that there are too many uneducated people in the city that they vote not for the best politician but for the politician most like them. In this case, they voted for ghetto people. They have voted for 5 straight black males including 1 felon and 1 former basketball player with no prior political career. It's a popularity contest.
Before you call me racist, i believe the same happens in many southern states and cities. Down there though, it's more about religion as the deciding factor.
Uneducated populations don't vote for the best politicians most of the time. That's why cities that were once well off and are now poor have a tough time bouncing back after decades of declines. - annjay, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5Beautiful collection.
- kingofinternet, on 06/15/2009, -1/+5white flight aided and subsidized by U.S. highway funding policy lobbied by the U.S. car industry.
the government subsidized suburbs bled the cities. - robosexy, on 06/15/2009, -3/+7really? but these were bad neighborhoods...Eminem is more likely to be found in a rich white neighborhood near Brentwood where Dr. Dre also lives...oh wait, you're talking about his marketing-friendly image. My mistake.
- XkenX87, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3FTW spraypainted on a door.
- pinchduck, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3That pretty much nails it. If Detroit weren't a one-industry town it wouldn't have hurt so much, but they never diversified, so when the auto companies went into decline 4 decades ago, nothing replaced them.
- samsonofjohn, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3I meant FYE not FYI
- teamquentin, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3What about Chris Chelios?
- jballalo31, on 06/15/2009, -2/+5Totally agree... You could make any city look bad if you took close up pictures of every boarded up building... given Detroit has more than most cities but still, if I took 27 pictures of homeless people in New York it would look ***** too
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Yeah because who else is a better expert on the city of Detroit and the auto industry but....Alec Baldwin
- Indpthinker, on 06/15/2009, -2/+4All of those empy scenes make me imagine when there were people there and how beautiful Detroit must have been.
- Doomsan, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Thanks mate.
- Witchdoktor, on 06/16/2009, -0/+2Here is an article that paints a haunting picture of what goes on in some of the abandoned buildings:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ ... - decker12, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2"Super Cool" shots of desperation and decay, indeed!
- kebinusan, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Where is Omni Consumer Products when you need them
- punchintheface, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Ranting celebrities are never helpful. Especially when there are Old Blood New Yorkers turned Al Gore fans.
- samsonofjohn, on 06/15/2009, -2/+4Regarding the picture with of the Saranay motel, that motel is NOT in Detroit in fact it is right across the street from me, in a suburb. Yes I realize the motel looks really "decayed" but actually it is not a sore eye. If they were to turn the camera 180 degrees you would see an FYI, Subway, Coffee Shop that are brand new and far from decayed. I mean its a cool picture but gives off the wrong message, Right behind and across the street there are some really nice houses.
- lostinseganet, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Detroit could never convince people to get over the race riots.
- motionblur, on 06/15/2009, -1/+3I've organized a couple of urban exploration trips to Detroit. With all sincerity, I can say the city is a wasteland. We ventured into what was once the most ritzy hotel in the city. This is what it looks like now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/motionblur/2274653417 ...
Here are a few more of my Detroit UE pics: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=detroit+urbex& ... - SpareAccount, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Can someone ID the first three buildings (are they all the shots of the same property?) - the architecture is spectacular.
*Please don't say /Insane Asylum/* *Please don't say /Insane Asylum/* - aaron4, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1When the roads are blocked off around the tallest office building downtown because of crumbling concrete facade its hard to be proud of where your from.
I'm glad i moved to Grand Rapids the other day. - GibsnSG, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1awesome shots
- klausany, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1Beautiful collection!
***Greece, Skiathos http://agentiahercules.wordpress.com/galerie-foto/ ... - fallingdamage, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1theres seems to be a new "Detroit Urban Decay" digg post that makes it to the front page every month.
Kevin should make "Urban Decay" a digg category.
also.. no links to the HQ versions of those pics. - terrible0ne, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1gotham
- GovernmentsGun, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Are those top two pictures of the Detroit Masonic Temple?
- 8FoldPath, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Thanks to crony capitalism and social dysfunction.
- dan1101, on 06/16/2009, -0/+1Wow, there's graffiti on some doors, raze the city. ;)
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