Poor D. has become the symbol of American depression, being once grand, decades of decline of industry, urban blight, bankruptcy, you know the story. Everyone has their own ideas about what it all means and how it should be ”saved”.
Detroit is the capital of ”ruin porn” for tourists – pointing with cameras at Detroit’s 70 000 abandoned buildings, urban exploring etc. A one-sided image of a city, though I must admit the buildings ARE fascinating. For more, read: How Detroit Became the World Capital of Staring at Abandoned Old Buildings
Um, I accidentally did this on Photoshop and decided to go with it.
The Heidelberg Project of recycling art.
I like ”Attitudes are the real disabilities”.
People are proud of their city, though.
I walked around town for hours and days (also, with no public transportation to speak of). I found no grocery stores in some areas and was introduced to the term ”food desert” of poor areas, no real food shops for miles. There is fast food, the worst kind, and booze… Food is such a big marker of inequalities.
(Probably I was never far from a doughnut, though.)
Personally I’m just so happy I don’t live in an American city – the sheer amount of cars and car noise pollution really gets me… It’s a sort of constant stress, a slow death. I think I’m probably a bit sensitive to sound, but still. A car culture thing rather than a Detroit thing.
OK, not Ladas, but I only draw Ladas (and the Greyhound).
Anyway! Urban farming is now big in Detroit, with so many vacant lots reclaimed for small community organisations. Sweet!
