Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Graveyard of Dreams

Aerial photos of Detroit showing a shrunken Downtown surrounded by growing areas of scrub land and small gardening plots. I've reposted a couple photos below--go to the link for more.

Aerial photos show how downtown Detroit has been turned into a tiny urban island, surrounded by abandoned housing blocks
Downtown Detroit and its environs.

The Packard plant on the outskirts of the city, regarded as a sophisticated auto production facility when it opened in the early 1900s, is now in ruins. It is surrounded by blocks of houses that have been left empty 
The abandoned Packard plant.

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