Take a look at these photos of Detroit that are published in The Guardian. Having spent a lot of time in abandoned and damaged buildings in my life the thing that strikes me is how they look more like buildings do after a sudden disaster rather than buildings that have been abandoned. Especially the libraries. It looks as though something sudden happened and everyone was forced to leave without removing the contents. I suppose that the checks stopped coming and so did the people that worked there.
Is this our future as we lose the financial ability to support all the public services we've created over the last hundred years?
Friday, January 7, 2011
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I grew up outside of Youngstown, Ohio - which is very much like those photos today. It has been a virtually "dead" economy since the late 70s. We sometimes create things we cannot sustain.
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