Long, in depth, and elegant piece on Detroit, abandonment, and the art that looks to replace it.
Excerpt:
For such men Detroit's emptiness offers chances that are unavailable
elsewhere; it makes the city into a sprawling laboratory, a living
stage. Blight has been contained, remedied and reversed in other
places. New York was nearly bankrupt in the 1970s. In Washington, DC,
new apartments have sprouted like gleaming, angular mushrooms all
across the former murder capital of the United States. But New York has
(or at least had) banking and finance; Washington has the federal
government. Detroit has space, and quiet. It has, as Wallace Stevens
said about a snowy landscape, "nothing that is not there, and the
nothing that is."
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