Urbanophile, a blog about cities, has done a few interesting pieces about Detroit over the last year or so. And, here's another one. This piece is close to our heart. The excerpt below sums it up nicely. Though the decay is real, the vacancies are real, the decline is real, it's not the whole story. There is another side of Detroit beyond all of that.
Excerpt from
Urbanophile:
Detroit actually contains numerous intact neighborhoods ranging from
working class to upscale. These are seldom shown in the voluminous
photo tours of the city that tend to focus exclusively on decay, and too
often on the same handful of sites such as Michigan Central Station, a
practice Vice Magazine dubbed "ruin porn."
The decay is there. The collapse is real. That is the story. But it's
not the whole story. Amid the truly legitimate and titanic struggles of
Detroit there's another side, one that's too seldom told. In the
interest of completeness, I'll share some of it today.
Read the entire article
here.
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