The Ruins of Detroit

This decline started with the riots of 1967 and continued through the 20+ year reign of Hizzhonor Coleman Young. Let us not forget when Mayor Young told the white population of Detroit to "hit 8 Mile" if we didn't like it here so we did. I hope all of you residents of Detroit are proud of your accomplishments and your former Mayors.

WTF?
Is this a photoshop-trick or is this reality?

This is what will happen to the rest of the U.S.A if we don't take our country back and start buying American made products.

Sad

Wow, looks like a third world country

Wow! There are no other run down, or abandoned buildings anywhere else in the world except Detroit? You self righteous, finger pointing bastards.

So this only happens in Detroit? Thanks for feeding the stereotype about great city.

I would never have thought anywhere in the USA looked like this

"This is what will happen to the rest of the U.S.A if we don't take our country back and start buying American made products."

This always cracks me up... You see the bumper stickers in Michigan about not buying foreign cars.... where was your TV made? Clothes? Towels? Everything? Make quality product and I'll buy it, no matter where it comes from. The problem, especially with cars, is US cars suck (most), and I'm from the US.

Photographers dream!

Let's not forget Detroit's sister city to the north. Flint. We are in the same situation as Detroit, but without the help from Casino's and sports teams.

Factual photos, but Detroit is alive!

I live across the river from Detroit in Canada. And for forty years I have watched a city with so much potential fall apart. Whom ever voted for Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick are to blame. They have a good Mayor now, let us hope he can turn it around. The last good mayor they had the pushed out of the way to put Kilpatrick in.

Interesting photo's most of them looked staged. Lighting as well looks deliberate. I'm sure it looks a lot worse in real life.

Just sad because it is one of the great cities of this country. We mention the riots, Coleman Young and Kilpatrick as forces that brought this city down but lets not forget the thugs in that city council who also robbed the city blind. Or the casinos with their broken promises. Or other arrogant bums like L Brooks Patterson who just assume leave it a ghost town. Good luck Dave Bing.

Dream place for a photographer

Dream place for a photographer

I am from Luxembourg and we have nothing like that here.
I will travel to US next year and Detroit is on my way.

I lived on Jefferson Ave during the racial riots destroy everything around and watched the National Guards on the roof top right across from our building. We moved to 7 mile and Gratiot, so as the African American boom hit we just kept moving so as all the whites did. The rape, the hold ups, the destruction was imense. When the metal came out and the store owners would lock up the buildings and protect the windows, my Grandfather said it was time to move, we ended up going to Warren, Mich. So yes people the decline of the city, the croocked mayors but most of all the people who didn't give a crap and when the color of the people started moving in, the whites fled and as I see now it was the best thing we ever did. This was a fact because everyone on our blocked just picked up and left. So yes this can happen in any slum area of any state. So watch out.

Do we need a permission or something to visit that areas?