Below are some pictures that I dredged up from my external hard drive of a quick driving tour of parts of Detroit. These pictures were taken on our way to the airport to fly back to Los Angeles. This trip was back in 2006, I was extremely surprised with the condition of the area.
This picture seems to show some signs of redevelopment, but these homes are still surrounded by what you see in the other pictures.
This sort of stuff just snaps me back to reality, where I spend most of my time, and reminds me to be thankful for all I do have. It also feeds my interest in pursuing architecture as a practice so that I can not let this happen, in any town.
Many of these buildings are abandoned, that or squatted in by drug dealers and users, leaving the neighborhood very trecherous at any time of day.
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