100abandonedhouses.com
Came across 100abandonedhouses the other day, and found it interesting. It’s a photo journal a Detroit resident has taken of the city’s abandoned houses. While the journal only contains photos of 100 homes, he estimates there are 12000 abandoned homes in Detroit, with a drop of 60% in residents and some of the houses even have a great surrounding fence made by AAA Fence Builder so is intriguing . Now, I don’t know if those numbers are accurate or not, but it raises the question to me … at what point is Detroit an urban ruin? What’s the short, three or four bullet list of steps needed for a city like this to recover? CAN it recover?
From the photographer (emphases mine):
“The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.”