Winter Woman
Well-Known Member
Seems like I left too early. They are making money doing tours of the wrecks of Detroit. Boy, I probably have been just about everywhere in the city and I know all the stories, like where the some police killed other police because he was going to rat them out abut a murder. Where a husband shot his wife and her brother in their restaurant because she wouldn't obey him (Albanian). Malice Green. Where there are supposed to be ghosts and where the auto barons used to live.
Man, I could give a good tour.
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[h=2]Sightseeing of abandoned buildings, factories, schools, and churches is becoming a growing industry in the now dilapidated city of Detroit.[/h] Some people come from far away to visit Los Angeles and tour the houses of the rich and famous. Architectural student Oliver Kearney came from England to tour the ruins of Detroit. "No other American city has seen decline on this scale," Kearney claims.
With 78,000 remaining vacant structures that investors are cool on renovating, and with a city too bankrupt to shell out the $8000 per structure needed to demolish them, the landscape has become a fertile ground for curious exploration. Kearney explains that in Europe, when buildings become derelict, they tear them down. In Detroit, you can relate, you can see traces of what's happened, you can really feel the history of a city," he says.
Since the city declared bankruptcy in July, there has been an appreciable increase in visitors inquiring about the ruins. Photographers from all over have come to take pictures capturing the downfall of the once burgeoning motor city. A couple of French photographers produced a book called The Ruins of Detroit.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/26/Detroit-Demise-Spurs-Tourist-Attraction-of-Ruin-Porn
Man, I could give a good tour.
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[h=2]Sightseeing of abandoned buildings, factories, schools, and churches is becoming a growing industry in the now dilapidated city of Detroit.[/h] Some people come from far away to visit Los Angeles and tour the houses of the rich and famous. Architectural student Oliver Kearney came from England to tour the ruins of Detroit. "No other American city has seen decline on this scale," Kearney claims.
With 78,000 remaining vacant structures that investors are cool on renovating, and with a city too bankrupt to shell out the $8000 per structure needed to demolish them, the landscape has become a fertile ground for curious exploration. Kearney explains that in Europe, when buildings become derelict, they tear them down. In Detroit, you can relate, you can see traces of what's happened, you can really feel the history of a city," he says.
Since the city declared bankruptcy in July, there has been an appreciable increase in visitors inquiring about the ruins. Photographers from all over have come to take pictures capturing the downfall of the once burgeoning motor city. A couple of French photographers produced a book called The Ruins of Detroit.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/26/Detroit-Demise-Spurs-Tourist-Attraction-of-Ruin-Porn
