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2/18/2010

Its widely known that Detroit went from one of the most thriving cities in the world to a dismal shadow of its former self. Through the 60s, the city virtually imploded following disintegrating race relations, rioting, and white flight. Following, an influx of heroin and crack, resulting in elevated levels of violent crime– amongst the highest ratings in the United States.

At this point the city is about half what its population was in the 50s (around 1.8 million at that time), and urban planners and developers are seeking to shrink the city's largely abandoned (an estimated 80% of buildings are abandoned in urban Detroit) historic center as a way to revive it.

Here are some images I took the last time I stopped in. The best way to describe a place like this, based on outsider observation and general feeling, is that its like a haunted house– but its a whole city.